she.phi denotes exposed, bare places, especially heights or open terrain, and can describe bareness in a bodily context.

The attested plural forms chiefly identify exposed, bare terrain—especially heights, wilderness places, and places along ways—whereas the singular forms occur in contexts of bones being laid bare and of going apart.

1. Exposed heights and open terrain · dominant

   The masculine plural absolute form occurs with heights, wilderness, valleys, ways, and lamentation sites. In Isaiah 41:18 the APB renders rivers opened on “the bare heights,” while Jeremiah 14:6 places wild donkeys there amid the lack of vegetation; Isaiah 49:9 and Jeremiah 12:12 likewise set pasturing and invading spoilers across such open places.

   Isaiah 41:18Isaiah 49:9Jeremiah 12:12Jeremiah 14:6Jeremiah 3:21Jeremiah 7:29
2. Bareness in singular exposure contexts · occasional

   The singular forms occur in two different clause settings. In Job 33:21 the construct form stands in the description of flesh wasting away and bones being laid bare; in Numbers 23:3 the absolute form occurs as Balaam goes apart, though the translation does not isolate the term's contribution there.

   Job 33:21Numbers 23:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the plural terrain contexts, the APB repeatedly uses “bare heights” and also “bareness”; it renders Job 33:21 with bones “laid bare” and Numbers 23:3 with Balaam going apart. The exact English contribution of the term in Numbers 23:3 remains unclear.