Humiliation
שִׁפְלָהStrong’s H8218shiphlah (shiph-lah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shiphlah is the Hebrew word usually translated “lowness”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.”
Meaning
- Lowliness, humiliation, a low place
How it's translated
- and with lowness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שִׁפְלָה shiphlah · humiliation
lowliness, humiliation, a low place
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “humiliation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HUMILIA'TION, noun
The act of humbling; the state of being humbled.
- Descent from an elevated state or rank to one that is low or humble.
- The act of abasing pride; or the state of being reduced to lowliness of mind, meekness, penitence and submission.
- Abasement of pride; mortification.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.