Sapphira

[ suh-fahy-ruh ]

/ səˈfaɪ rə /

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

Also Sap·phire

[saf-ahyuh r] /ˈsæf aɪər/. a female given name.

Example sentences from the Web for sapphira

Her eyes were so blue that but for the association he would have called her Sapphira.

Weighed and Wanting |George MacDonald
And as though that was not bad enough, his wife too died, straightway, like another Sapphira slain by the shock of the tidings.

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 |Various
I never heard of chickens eating pebbles, observed Sapphira with a frown.

Mr. Munchausen |John Kendrick Bangs
What a fine opportunity was afforded on this occasion to Sapphira, for fulfilling the high but difficult duties of her situation!

Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II |Francis Augustus Cox

It was a seat, however, on which he remembered sitting with Sapphira once in the summer before she went away.

Some Persons Unknown |E. W. Hornung

Sapphira

/ (sæˈfaɪrə) /

New Testament the wife of Ananias, who together with her husband was struck dead for fraudulently concealing their wealth from the Church (Acts 5)