TBESH · H8259
שָׁקַף · sha.qaph · to look
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
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sha.qaph H8259
שָׁקַף (sha.qaph) means “to look” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
שָׁקַף Hebrew · H8259 22 tagged occurrences in 22 verses
Pronunciation guide: shaw-kaf' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive root; properly, to lean out (of a window), i.e. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a spectacle)
KJV glosses: appear, look (down, forth, out).
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How translators render H8259
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| looked down | 5 |
| looks down | 4 |
| looked out | 2 |
| and looked down | 1 |
| he looked | 1 |
| he looked down | 1 |
| i looked | 1 |
| look down | 1 |
| looked | 1 |
| looms | 1 |
| overlooking | 1 |
| overlooks | 1 |
| which overlooks | 1 |
| who shines | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| looked | 4 |
| look down | 2 |
| looked down | 2 |
| that looketh | 2 |
| and he looked | 1 |
| and looked out | 1 |
| appeareth | 1 |
| for he hath looked down | 1 |
| from thence and looked | 1 |
| i looked | 1 |
| looked out | 1 |
| looketh forth | 1 |
| looking out | 1 |
| on my side who and there looked out | 1 |
| shall look down | 1 |
| which looketh | 1 |
Verses containing H8259
Page 1 of 1. 22 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 18:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.
Read word by word - Genesis 19:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Genesis 26:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
Read word by word - Exodus 14:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
Read word by word - Numbers 21:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
Read word by word - Numbers 23:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 26:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - Judges 5:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 13:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
another toward Beth-horon, and the third down the border road overlooking the Valley of Zeboim facing the wilderness.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 6:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 24:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 9:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.
Read word by word - 2 Kings 9:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three eunuchs looked down at him.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 15:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Psalms 14:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.
Read word by word - Psalms 53:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 53.3
- Psalms 85:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Faithfulness sprouts from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 85.12
- Psalms 102:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 102.20
- Proverbs 7:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.
Read word by word - Song of Solomon 6:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Who is this who shines like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as the stars in procession?
Read word by word - Jeremiah 6:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“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.
Read word by word - Lamentations 3:50
· BSB · 1 occurrence
until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
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