Sapphira

American  

[suh-fahy-ruh] / səˈfaɪ rə /

noun

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

2. Also Sapphire a female given name.

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Sapphira British  

/ 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)

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Example Sentences

Sapphira Cristál may be the runner-up, but she doesn’t need a crown to know she’s regal.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024

In a season that had the most Latina queens in “RuPaul’s Drag Race” herstory, Sapphira Cristál felt right at home.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024

“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.

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2021

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.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2018

“Mercy!” cried Sapphira, “I should think you’d have died of fright.”

From Mr. Munchausen  Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder by Bangs, John Kendrick