This dual-form noun refers to sheepfolds or livestock enclosures, structures where shepherds penned their flocks for safety and rest. The word appears in Psalm 68:13 in a rhetorical question challenging those who stayed 'among the sheepfolds' rather than joining Israel's military campaigns. The term likely denotes the paired walls or double enclosures typical of ancient sheep pens. It may be related to mishpetayim, another term for similar structures. The sheepfolds represent safety and domesticity but also, in this context, cowardice—the comfortable place where some chose to remain rather than risk battle.