shafal · low, humble

What it means

shafal (שָׁפָל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “low, humble”.

Low, sunken; of a person, humble or lowly.

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. Of small height.
2. Modest in spirit.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• lowly ×8
• low ×6
• lower ×4
• Lowlier ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×4
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×2
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×6
• Malachi×1

• Leviticus 13:20

  The priest shall examine it, and if its appearance is lower than the skin and its hair has turned white, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore; it has broken out in the ulcer.

• Leviticus 13:21

  But if the priest examines it and, look, there is no white hair in it and it is not lower than the skin but it has faded, the priest shall isolate him seven days.

• Leviticus 13:26

  But if the priest examines it and, look, there is no white hair in the bright spot and it is not lower than the skin but it has faded, the priest shall isolate him seven days.

• Leviticus 14:37

  He shall examine the mark, and if the mark in the walls of the house is greenish or reddish hollows, and they appear lower than the wall,

• 2 Samuel 6:22

  And I will make myself contemptible even more than this, and I will be low in my own eyes; but with the slave women of whom you have spoken, with them I will be honored.”

• Job 5:11

  setting the lowly on high, and those who mourn are lifted to salvation;

• Psalms 138:6

  For YHWH is high, yet the lowly he sees, but the haughty from afar he knows.

• Proverbs 16:19

  Better to be lowly of spirit with the humble than to divide plunder with the proud.

• Proverbs 29:23

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

• Ecclesiastes 12:4

  and the doors on the street are shut, when the sound of the mill is low, and one rises at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;

• Isaiah 57:15

  For thus says the High and Lifted Up One, who inhabits eternity, and Holy is his name: “In the high and holy place I dwell, and with the crushed and lowly of spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the crushed.

• Ezekiel 17:6

  And it sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in stature, so that its branches turned toward it, and its roots were under it; and it became a vine, and produced shoots and sent out foliage.

• Ezekiel 17:14

  that it might be a lowly kingdom, not lifting itself up, that by keeping his covenant it might stand.

• 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.

• Ezekiel 29:14

  And I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and I will bring them back to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and they will be there a lowly kingdom.

• Ezekiel 29:15

  Lowlier than the kingdoms it will be, and it will not exalt itself any more above the nations; and I will make them few so that they will not rule over the nations.

• Malachi 2:9

  And I also have made you despised and low before all the people, inasmuch as you are not keeping my ways but are lifting the face in the instruction.

And 1 more times.