שָׁקַף
sha.qaph
“to look”
Definition
properly, to lean out (of a window), i.e. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a spectacle)
a primitive root;
- to overlook, look down or out, overhang, look out and down 1a) (Niphal) to lean over (and look), look down 1b) (Hiphil) to look down, look down upon
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Grammar & Morphology
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
שָׁקַף appears 19 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.
He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?”And two or three eunuchs looked down at him.
Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.”
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
“Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin;flee from Jerusalem!Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa;send up a signal over Beth-haccherem,for disaster looms from the north,even great destruction.
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