Quick Definition
to look
Strong's Definition
properly, to lean out (of a window), i.e. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a spectacle)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: appear, look (down, forth, out).
TWOT Reference: 2457
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
שָׁקַף (sha.qaph) — to look. 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מַשְׁקֹוף · שֶׁקֶף · שְׁקֻפִים
See | verb nif
to overlook = state in which a place is located on a relatively high elevation, so that from there one can see surrounding places that are situated at a lower altitude
See | verb hif, verb nif
to look down = action by which humans or deities fix their eyes towards something located at a lower level of elevation
GEN 18:16 · GEN 19:28 · GEN 26:8 · EXO 14:24 · DEU 26:15 · JDG 5:28 · 2SA 6:16 · 2SA 24:20 · 2KI 9:30 · 2KI 9:32 · 1CH 15:29 · PSA 14:2 · PSA 53:3 · PSA 85:12 · PSA 102:20 · PRO 7:6 · SNG 6:10 · LAM 3:50
Happen | verb nif
to appear, to loom literally: to see; hence: = process by which an event is beginning to take place, ◄ described in terms of something that slowly becomes visible
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[שָׁקַף] vb. Niph. Hiph. overhang, look out and down Niph. lean over (and look), look down
Hiph. look down
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