Sapphira

[suh-fahy-ruh]

noun

1. a woman who, with her husband, Ananias, was struck dead for lying. Acts 5.

2. Also Sapphire a female given name.

Sapphira

/ sæˈfaɪrə /

noun

1. New Testament the wife of Ananias, who together with her husband was struck dead for fraudulently concealing their wealth from the Church (Acts 5)

Example Sentences

“What does critical race theory mean to you?” pointedly asked Sapphira Lloyd, a 16-year-old Black student who attends Millwood Public Schools in Oklahoma City.

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Breez Sapphira, a photographer who works at a sneaker and fashion boutique in Minneapolis, sees the Blue Lives Matter organisation in starkly different terms, and says she does not support the group.

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You would open up something like Cather’s “Sapphira and the Slave Girl,” which is set in antebellum Virginia and concerns a woman’s paranoid sexual jealousy of her chattel, to see how a novel’s particular problems stemmed from their wrestles with, or submissions to, dominant racial ideologies.

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The library retains the fading, hand-stamped cards listing in longhand the books that Cather and Lewis withdrew between 1937-1947, during the time that Cather wrote and published her last novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl.

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Sapphira Goradia, 34, is the executive director and sole employee of her parents’ charitable entity, the Vijay and Marie Goradia Foundation.

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