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STRONGS NUMBER H8217

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Word Summary
shaphal: low
Original Word: שָׁפָל
Transliteration: shaphal
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-fawl')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: low
Meaning: depressed
Strong's Concordance
basest, humble, lower,

From shaphel; depressed, literally or figuratively -- base(-st), humble, low(-er, -ly).

see HEBREW shaphel

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8217. shaphal

שָׁפָל‎ adjective low; — absolute ׳שׁ‎ 2 Samuel 6:22 +, construct שְׁפַל‎ Psalm 29:23 +; feminine singular שְׁפָלָה‎ Ezekiel 17:14 +, construct שִׁפְלַת‎ 17:6; plural שְׁפָלִים‎ Job 5:11; —

1 low, in height, of vine Ezekiel 17:6, tree 17:24 (opposed to גָּבֹהַּ‎); ׳שׁ מִןהָֿעוֺר‎ Leviticus 13:20 lower (deeper) than the skin (around it), so 13:21; 13:26, compare 14:37.

2 of a modest, unambitious kingdom Ezekiel 17:14; 29:14-15, low in station Job 5:11 (opposed to שָֽׂגְבוּ‎), Ezekiel 21:31 (Ges§ 90f.; read הַשְּׁפָלָה֣‎).

3 humiliated, ׳שׁ בְּעֵינָ֑י‎ 2 Samuel 6:22; plural Malachi 2:9 ("" נִבְזִים‎).

4 lowly, as substantive Psalm 138:6 (opposed to גָּבֹהַּ‎), שְׁפָלִים רוּחַ‎ Isaiah 57:15 ("" אִים נִדְכָּ‎); רוּחַ שְׁפַל‎ 57:15, Proverbs 29:23 (opposed to אָדָם גַּאֲוַת‎), + 16:19 Thes and others (but see checkQal 2).





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