שָׁפֵלshâphêl
שָׁפֵל: be or become low, be abased
Pronunciation: shaw-fale' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8213
Meanings
Qal
1. become (be brought, laid) low, all Isaiah (Isaiah 10:33; Isaiah 40:4; Isaiah 2:12)
2. to be lowly of spirit (Proverbs 16:9)
3. of sound (Ecclesiastes 12:4)
Hiph`il: absolute (Isaiah 25:12; Psalms 75:8; Isaiah 26:5)
1. lay low, usually figurative (Ezekiel 17:24; Isaiah 26:5; Isaiah 25:12)
2. set, in a lower place (Proverbs 25:7; Proverbs 29:23; Isaiah 57:9)
3. make low, sit down, as helping verb (Jeremiah 13:18; Psalms 113:6; Psalms 113:5)
: be low
Haph`el: bring low, humble (Daniel 5:22; Daniel 7:24; Daniel 4:34)
Same root
- שְׁפַלshᵉphal · H8214{to depress or sink (expectation figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive)}
- שֶׁפֶלshephel · H8216an humble rank
- שָׁפָלshâphâl · H8217depressed, literally or figuratively
- שְׁפֵלָהshᵉphêlâh · H8219Lowland, i.e. (with the article) the maritime slope of Palestine
- שִׁפְלוּתshiphlûwth · H8220remissness
Where it appears
Appears 31 times in the Bible.
- 1 Samuel 2:7 The Lord makes some poor and others rich; he brings some down and lifts others up.
- 2 Samuel 22:28 You rescue the humble, but your eyes watch the proud and humiliate them.
- Job 22:29 If people are in trouble and you say, ‘Help them,’ God will save them.
- Job 40:11 Give vent to your anger. Let it overflow against the proud.
- Psalms 18:27 You rescue the humble, but you humiliate the proud.
- Psalms 75:7 It is God alone who judges; he decides who will rise and who will fall.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).