shup.pim is a proper name used in genealogical statements and in an assignment connected with gate custody.

The attested uses present shup.pim as a proper name: it occurs in family notices in 1 Chronicles 7:12 and 1 Chronicles 7:15, and in 1 Chronicles 26:16 within an assignment of custody at a gate.

1. Proper name in family notices and custody assignment · dominant

   The form is tagged as a proper noun in all three occurrences. In 1 Chronicles 7:12 the APB renders “Shuppim and Huppim were sons of Ir,” and in 1 Chronicles 7:15 it places Shuppim with Huppim in Machir’s taking of a wife for them; in 1 Chronicles 26:16, the APB renders Shuppim in the westward custody arrangement by the gate Shallecheth.

   1 Chronicles 7:121 Chronicles 7:151 Chronicles 26:16

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “Shuppim” in each cited verse. Its exact contribution beyond its use as a proper name is clear from the clauses.