shakaf · look down

What it means

shakaf (שָׁקַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “look down”.

From above, look out (of a window).

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 lean out and gaze below, like YHWH from heaven.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• looked down ×12
• looks down ×7
• I looked out ×1
• Look down ×1
• she looked out ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1

• Genesis 18:16

  Then the men got up from there and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them on their way.

• Genesis 19:28

  He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain, and he saw, and look, the smoke of the land was going up like the smoke of a furnace.

• Genesis 26:8

  When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down through the window and saw, and look, Isaac was caressing Rebekah his wife.

• Exodus 14:24

  In the morning watch, YHWH looked down on the camp of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and threw into confusion the camp of the Egyptians.

• Numbers 21:20

  and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the country of Moab, at the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the wasteland.

• Numbers 23:28

  So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks down on the wasteland.

• Deuteronomy 26:15

  Look down from your holy dwelling, from the heavens, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

• Judges 5:28

  Through the window she looked out and cried, the mother of Sisera, through the lattice: ‘Why is his chariot slow in coming? Why are the hoofbeats of his chariots delayed?’

• 1 Samuel 13:18

  another group turned toward the road to Beth-horon; and another group turned toward the road of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim, toward the wilderness.

• 2 Samuel 6:16

  And as the ark of YHWH was coming into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before YHWH; and she despised him in her heart.

• 2 Samuel 24:20

  Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants coming over toward him; and Araunah went out and bowed down to the king with his face to the ground.

• 2 Kings 9:30

  Jehu came to Jezreel, and Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes with antimony and adorned her head and looked down through the window.

• 2 Kings 9:32

  He lifted his face to the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three officials looked down at him.

• 1 Chronicles 15:29

  And it happened that as the ark of the covenant of YHWH was coming to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and celebrating; and she despised him in her heart.

• Psalms 14:2

  YHWH from the heavens looked down upon human beings to see if there is anyone who understands, who seeks Elohim.

• Psalms 53:2

  Elohim from the heavens looked down upon human beings to see if there is anyone who understands, who seeks Elohim.

• Psalms 85:11

  Faithfulness will sprout from the earth, and righteousness looks down from the heavens.

• Psalms 102:19

  For he looked down from the height of his holiness; YHWH from the heavens to the earth gazed,

• Proverbs 7:6

  For at the window of my house, through my lattice, I looked out,

• Song of Songs 6:10

  Who is this who looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, pure as the sun, fearsome as troops with banners?

• Jeremiah 6:1

  Flee for safety, sons of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem, and in Tekoa blow the horn, and over Beth-haccherem raise a signal, for evil looks down from the north, and a great breaking.

• Lamentations 3:50

  until YHWH looks down and sees from the heavens.