shaqaph (to look)

Meaning

To overlook, look down or out, overhang, look out and down(Niphal) to lean over (and look), look down · (Hiphil) to look down, look down upon

How it's translated

and he looked down 4
she looked down 3
and they looked down 2
which looks down 2
he looks down 2
and it looked down 1
look down 1
and she looked down 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Psalms 4
Genesis 3
Numbers 2
2 Samuel 2
2 Kings 2
Exodus 1

14 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Genesis 19:28And 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.
Genesis 26:8And 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.
Exodus 14:24And 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,
Numbers 21:20And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
Numbers 23:28And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
Deuteronomy 26:15Look 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.

All 22 verses, by book

Genesis 3: 18:16 19:28 26:8
Exodus 1: 14:24
Numbers 2: 21:20 23:28
Deuteronomy 1: 26:15
Judges 1: 5:28
1 Samuel 1: 13:18
2 Samuel 2: 6:16 24:20
2 Kings 2: 9:30 9:32
1 Chronicles 1: 15:29
Psalms 4: 14:2 53:2 85:11 102:19
Proverbs 1: 7:6
Song of Solomon 1: 6:10
Jeremiah 1: 6:1
Lamentations 1: 3:50

Hebrew dictionary

שָׁקַף shaqaph · 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

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “look” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

LOOK, verb intransitive

[See Light. The primary sense is to stretch, to extend, to shoot, hence to direct the eye. We observe its primary sense is nearly the same as that of seek. Hence, to look for is to seek.]

To direct the eye towards an object, with the intention of seeing it.
To see; to have the sight or view of.
To direct the intellectual eye; to apply the mind or understanding; to consider; to examine. look at the conduct of this man; view it in all its aspects.
To expect.

All definitions and other forms of “look”

To take care; to watch.
To be directed.“Let thine eyes look right on” Proverbs 4:25
To seem; to appear; to have a particular appearance.
To have a particular direction or situation; to face; to front.“The gate that looketh toward the north” Ezekiel 8:3“The east gate of the Lord's house, that looketh eastward” Ezekiel 11:1
To look after, to attend; to take care of; as, to look after children.
To expect; to be in a state of expectation.“Men's hearts falling them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth” Luke 21:26
To seek; to search.
To look for, to expect; as, to look for news by the arrival of a ship.
To seek; to search; as, to look for lost money, or lost cattle.“Which things the angels desire to look into” 1 Peter 1:12
To look on, to regard; to esteem.
To consider; to view; to conceive of; to think.
To be a mere spectator.
To look to, or unto, to watch; to take care of.“LOOK well to thy herds” Proverbs 27:23
To resort to with confidence or expectation of receiving something; to expect to receive from.“LOOK to me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth” Isaiah 45:22

LOOK, verb transitive

To seek; to search for.
To influence by looks or presence; as, to look down opposition.

LOOK, noun

Cast of countenance; air of the face; aspect; as, a high look is an index of pride; a downcast look is an index of pride; a downcast look indicates modesty, bashfulness, or depression of mind.
The act of looking or seeing.
View; watch.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.