shafel · bring low, humble

What it means

shafel (שָׁפֵל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bring low, humble”.

To bring down, to lower someone from his place; to humble.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To lower someone, or humble oneself.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• brought low ×9
• bring low ×5
• bring him low ×2
• he brings low ×2
• he lays it low ×2
• Humble yourselves ×1
• he brings down ×1
• he will lay low ×1
• lowered yourself ×1
• than to be humbled ×1
• others ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×16
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2

• 1 Samuel 2:7

  YHWH makes poor and makes rich; he brings low, and also lifts up.

• 2 Samuel 22:28

  And afflicted people you save, but your eyes are on the haughty, whom you bring low.

• Job 22:29

  When they bring someone low, you will say, ‘Up,’ and the one with downcast eyes he will save.

• Job 40:11

  Scatter the furies of your anger, and look at every proud one and bring him low.

• Psalms 18:27

  For you save an afflicted people, and haughty eyes you bring low.

• Psalms 75:7

  but Elohim is the one who judges: this one he brings low, and this one he lifts up.

• Psalms 113:6

  who stoops down to look in the heavens and on the earth?

• Psalms 147:6

  YHWH sustains the humble; he brings down the wicked to the ground.

• Proverbs 25:7

  for it is better to be told, “Come up here,” than to be humbled before a noble whom your eyes have seen.

• Proverbs 29:23

  A man’s loftiness will bring him low, but the lowly of spirit will lay hold of honor.

• Isaiah 2:9

  And human beings are bowed down, and man is brought low — do not forgive them!

• Isaiah 2:11

  The haughty eyes of human beings will be brought low, and the height of men will be bowed down, and YHWH alone will be set on high on that day.

• Isaiah 2:12

  For YHWH Tsevaot has a day against all that is proud and lofty, and against all that is lifted up, and it will be brought low;

• Isaiah 2:17

  And the haughtiness of human beings will be bowed down, and the height of men brought low, and YHWH alone will be set on high on that day.

• Isaiah 5:15

  And human beings are bowed down, and man is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are brought low.

• Isaiah 10:33

  Look, the Lord, YHWH Tsevaot, lops the boughs with terror; and the high of stature are hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low.

• Isaiah 13:11

  And I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will put an end to the pride of the insolent, and the arrogance of tyrants I will bring low.

• Isaiah 25:11

  And he will spread out his hands in its midst, as the swimmer spreads out his hands to swim; and he will bring low his pride together with the tricks of his hands.

• Isaiah 25:12

  And the fortress, the high refuge of your walls, he will bring down, he will lay low, he will bring it to the ground, to the dust.

• Isaiah 26:5

  For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the town set on high; he lays it low, he lays it low to the ground, he brings it to the dust.

• Isaiah 29:4

  And you will be brought low; from the earth you will speak, and from the dust your saying will come low; and your voice will be like a spirit of the dead from the earth, and from the dust your saying will whisper.

• Isaiah 32:19

  And it will hail when the forest comes down, and in lowliness the city will be laid low.

• Isaiah 40:4

  Every valley will be lifted up, and every mountain and hill will be made low; and the crooked will become a plain, and the rough places a broad valley.

• Isaiah 57:9

  And you went to the king with oil, and multiplied your perfumes; and you sent your messengers far away, and lowered yourself down to Sheol.

• Jeremiah 13:18

  Say to the king and to the lady: “Humble yourselves, sit down, for from your heads has come down the crown of your beauty.”

• Ezekiel 17:24

  And all the trees of the field will know that I, YHWH, have brought low the high tree, have made high the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made flourish the dry tree. I, YHWH, have spoken, and I will do it.’”

• Ezekiel 21:26

  thus says Adonai YHWH: Remove the turban and take off the crown! This will not be this! The low exalt, and the high bring low.

And 2 more times.