Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H8259
שָׁקַף
sha.qaph · “to look”
Used 22 times across 14 books
Definition
1) 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
1a) (Niphal) to lean over (and look), look down
1b) (Hiphil) to look down, look down upon
Where it appears
Genesis3
Exodus1
Numbers2
Deuteronomy1
Judges1
1 Samuel1
2 Samuel2
2 Kings2
1 Chronicles1
Psalms4
Proverbs1
Song of Solomon1
Jeremiah1
Lamentations1
In the text
Genesis 18:16And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.Genesis 19:28And 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.Genesis 26:8And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.Exodus 14:24And 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 host of the Egyptians,Numbers 21:20And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.Numbers 23:28And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.Deuteronomy 26:15Look 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 that floweth with milk and honey.Judges 5:28The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?1 Samuel 13:18And another company turned the way to Beth–horon: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.2 Samuel 6:16And 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; and she despised him in her heart.
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