שָׁקַף shaqaph

Hebrew word for “to look” · Strong’s H8259 · used 22 times in 22 verses

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Meaning

1) to overlook, look down or out, overhang, look out and down;

How it is translated

Glosses given for shaqaph in context, with how often each is used:

• looked down 12
• looks down 3
• which looks down 2
• has looked down 2
• look down ! 1
• one who looks down 1
• will look down 1

Where it is used

Also in 2 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

2 Kings 9 (2), Genesis 18 (1), Genesis 19 (1), Genesis 26 (1), Exodus 14 (1), Numbers 21 (1), Numbers 23 (1), Deuteronomy 26 (1), Judges 5 (1), 1 Samuel 13 (1)

Forms

• וישׁקף 4
• נשׁקפה 4
• השׁקיף 3
• הנשׁקף 2
• וישׁקפו 1
• ונשׁקפה 1
• השׁקיפה 1
• ותשׁקף 1
• וישׁקיפו 1
• נשׁקף 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shaqaph more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חַלּוֹן challon “window” 7
• בַּעַד bead “about/through/for” 6
• שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 6
• רָאָה raah “to see” 8
• אֶשְׁנָב eshnav “lattice” 2
• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 4
• יְשִׁימוֹן yeshimon “wilderness” 2
• מִיכַל mikhal “Michal” 2
• סְדֹם sedom “Sodom” 2
• בָּזָה bazah “to despise” 2
• גַּיְא gay “valley” 2
• שָׂכַל sakhal “be prudent” 2

Key verses

The verses using shaqaph that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 19:28 — And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
• Exodus 14:24 — And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the…
• Deuteronomy 26:15 — Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land…
• 2 Samuel 6:16 — And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD;…
• 2 Kings 9:30 — And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
• 2 Kings 9:32 — And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
• 1 Chronicles 15:29 — And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David…
• Psalms 14:2 — The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
• Psalms 53:2 — God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
• Psalms 102:19 — For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
• Song of Solomon 6:10 — Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
• Jeremiah 6:1 — O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem:…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.