Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H8214
שְׁפַל
shephalshef-al'
be low
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shᵉphal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8214is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8214
{to depress or sink (expectation figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive)}
The King James renders it: abase, humble, put down, subdue.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
shephal is rendered "be low". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Four of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
Daniel 4:37לְהַשְׁפָּלָֽה׃ פ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's four uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- bringing low1
- he will bring low1
- to bring low1
- you have brought low1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁפִי | shephi | bareness | Uses9 |
| שְׁפַר | shephar | to acceptable | Uses3 |
| שְׁפוֹט | shephot | judgment | Uses2 |
| שְׁפַט | shephat | to judge | Uses1 |
| שְׁפַל | shephal | low | Uses1 |
| שְׁפִיפֹן | shephiphon | horned viper | Uses1 |
| שְׁפַרְפַר | shepharphar | dawn | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַשְׁפֵּ֖לְתְּ1
- יְהַשְׁפִּֽל׃1
- לְהַשְׁפָּלָֽה׃ פ1
- מַשְׁפִּֽיל׃1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1AR/Vhcc
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1AVhi3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1AVhp2ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular1AVhrmsa
Daniel
four uses
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
- לְהַשְׁפָּלָֽה׃ פlehashpalahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to bring low
Because of the greatness that He bestowed on him, the people of every nation and language trembled in fear before him. He killed whom he wished and kept alive whom he wished; he exalted whom he wished and humbled whom he wished.
- מַשְׁפִּֽיל׃mashpilverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: bringing low
But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.
- הַשְׁפֵּ֖לְתְּhashpeletverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have brought low
And the ten horns are ten kings who will rise from this kingdom. After them another king, different from the earlier ones, will rise and subdue three kings.
- יְהַשְׁפִּֽל׃yehashpilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will bring low
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.