SHAPHAT shāf’ ăt (שָׁפָ֔ט; LXX Σαφάτ; judged). 1. The father of the prophet Elisha (1 Kings 19:16, 19, 20; 2 Kings 3:11; 6:31). He was from the town of Abelmeholah E of the Jordan River, prob. Tell el-Maqlub on the Wadi el-Yabis. Shaphat lived to see his son named to assume the mantle of Elijah.

2. A son of Hori and of the tribe of Simeon (Num 13:5). He represented his tribe as one of the twelve spies sent out by Moses from the wilderness of Paran to survey the nature of Canaan prior to the Israelite conquest of the Promised Land.

3. The youngest of the six sons of Shemaiah although only five are named in 1 Chronicles 3:22. He was a grandson of Zerubbabel and of the royal line of the house of David.

4. A son of Adlai. He was one of King David’s herdsmen of the flocks in the valleys (1 Chron 27:29).

5. One of the sons of Gad who lived in the land of Bashan (1 Chron 5:12).