sha.phan is a personal name, identifying a royal secretary and appearing in family-line identifications.

The attested form is a proper personal name: it identifies Shaphan as a secretary in the king’s service and recurs in patronymic descriptions of Ahikam, Gemariah, Jaazaniah, and Gedaliah.

1. Personal name in official and family identifications · dominant

   All supplied tokens are tagged as a proper noun. In 2 Kings 22:8 the APB renders Shaphan receiving and reading the scroll, while 2 Kings 22:10 renders him reporting and reading it before the king. In Jeremiah 36:10 and Ezekiel 8:11, the name occurs in the identifications “Gemariah son of Shaphan” and “Jaazaniah son of Shaphan”; 2 Kings 25:22 similarly identifies Gedaliah through Ahikam and Shaphan.

   2 Kings 22:32 Kings 22:82 Kings 22:102 Kings 25:22Jeremiah 36:10Ezekiel 8:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB consistently presents the proper noun as “Shaphan.” Across the supplied verses, it appears both as the named secretary and within descriptions such as “son of Shaphan”.