שַׁפְעֵל MH ‘Shaph‘el’ (grammar) — name of one of the second causative conjugations in various Sem. languages (Aram., Syr. and Akka.), which generally correspond to Heb. הִפְעִיל. [Properly the third person singm. form of the second causative form of Aram.-Syr. פְּעַל.]
