HebrewH8217Adjective

שָׁפָל

sha.phal

15Occurrences
H8217Strong's #
AdjectivePart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

depressed, literally or figuratively

from H8213 (שָׁפֵל);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. low, humble 1a) low (in height) 1b) low (in station), humble (of condition or spirit) 1c) humiliated 1d) lowly (as subst)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Adjective

Morphology Code

H:A

Full Description

Hebrew Adjective

Occurrences

שָׁפָל appears 15 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ezk
5
Leviticus
4
2 Samuel
1
Isaiah
1
Job
1
Malachi
1
Proverbs
1
Psalms
1

Key Passages

2 Samuel 6:22BSB

and I will humiliate and humble myself even more than this. Yet I will be honored by the maidservants of whom you have spoken.”

Ezk 17:24BSB

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Isaiah 57:15BSB

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up,who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:“I dwell in a high and holy place,and with the oppressed and humble in spirit,to restore the spirit of the lowlyand revive the heart of the contrite.

Leviticus 13:21BSB

But when the priest examines it, if there is no white hair in it, and it is not beneath the skin and has faded, the priest shall isolate him for seven days.

Malachi 2:9BSB

“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.