Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8216
שֶׁפֶל
shephelshay'-fel
poverty
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8216is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8216
an humble rank
The King James renders it: low estate (place).
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
shephel is rendered "poverty". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 136:23He remembered us in our low estate His loving devotion endures forever.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
He remembered us in our low estate His loving devotion endures forever.
Psalms 136:23שֶׁ֭בְּשִׁפְלֵנוּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's two uses is in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- in the low place1
- who in low condition our1
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.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- בַּשֵּׁ֥פֶל1
- שֶׁ֭בְּשִׁפְלֵנוּ1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
- relative particle (“who / which”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HTr/R/Ncmsc/Sp1bp
Psalms
one use
He remembered us in our low estate His loving devotion endures forever.
- שֶׁ֭בְּשִׁפְלֵנוּshebeshiflenurelative particle (“who / which”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: who in low condition our
Ecclesiastes
one use
Folly is appointed to great heights, but the rich sit in lowly positions.
- בַּשֵּׁ֥פֶלbashefelpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the low place
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.