שָׁפָן Hyrax (shafan)
Every verse in which this word stands as the creature — 4 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. The word's lexicon entry carries more than the creature, so these are the creature's own verses — the row's note says what the other places are.
The shafan — bringing up the cud without parting the hoof in the Torah's lists, at home in the crags in Tehillim, wise and small in Mishlei. Traditionally coney; the hyrax of the naturalists — the identification is discussed. The same lexicon entry carries Shaphan the scribe, so this row counts only the four verses of the creature.
וְאֶת־הַשָּׁפָן כִּֽי־מַעֲלֵה גֵרָה הוּא וּפַרְסָה לֹא יַפְרִיס טָמֵא הוּא לָכֶֽם
And the rock-badger, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.
אַךְ אֶת־זֶה לֹא תֹֽאכְלוּ מִמַּֽעֲלֵי הַגֵּרָה וּמִמַּפְרִיסֵי הַפַּרְסָה הַשְּׁסוּעָה אֶֽת־הַגָּמָל וְאֶת־הָאַרְנֶבֶת וְאֶת־הַשָּׁפָן כִּֽי־מַעֲלֵה גֵרָה הֵמָּה וּפַרְסָה לֹא הִפְרִיסוּ טְמֵאִים הֵם לָכֶֽם
Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that only chew the cud, or of them that only have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rock-badger, because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean unto you;
הָרִים הַגְּבֹהִים לַיְּעֵלִים סְלָעִים מַחְסֶה לַֽשְׁפַנִּֽים
The high mountains are for the wild goats; The rocks are a refuge for the conies.
שְׁפַנִּים עַם לֹא־עָצוּם וַיָּשִׂימוּ בַסֶּלַע בֵּיתָֽם
The rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the crags;
Quick answers
What is the Hebrew word for hyrax?
Hyrax in Hebrew is שפן, with a gematria of 430 in the standard method.
How many times is the hyrax mentioned in the Tanakh?
The word stands 4 times as the creature, first at Leviticus 11:5.
A spelling is not a word. The bare letters שפן stand 29 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell a name or another word entirely, and the creature written with a particle attached is a spelling that search never returns. It is here, as itself.
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