Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to look
Usage: 1) to overlook, look down or out, overhang, look out and down 1a) (Niphal) to lean over (and look), look down 1b) (Hiphil) to look down, look down upon
Shaqaph means “appear” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8259 שָׁקַף (shaqaph) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shaqaph (shaw-kaf') v. 1. (properly) to lean out (of a window) 2. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a spectacle) It has 22 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include looked, out, looketh, look, and window. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
shaqaph (shaw-kaf') v. 1. (properly) to lean out (of a window) 2. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a spectacle) [a primitive root] KJV: appear, look (down, forth, out).
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to look
Usage: 1) to overlook, look down or out, overhang, look out and down 1a) (Niphal) to lean over (and look), look down 1b) (Hiphil) to look down, look down upon
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shaqaph, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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22 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
First 22 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8259.
And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward jeshimon.
Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.
And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8259, grouped by book.
Shaqaph (Strong's H8259) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "appear". shaqaph (shaw-kaf') v. 1. (properly) to lean out (of a window) 2. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a spectacle)
This page currently indexes 22 linked usages for Strong's H8259 across 14 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8259 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as looked, out, looketh, look, and window. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.