שְׁפַל
shᵉphal · H8215 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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low, of low status
Literally: low; hence: state in which humans have a relatively low status in the eyes of others
ExamplesDaniel 4:17 “This sentence is by the decree of the angelic watchers, And the decision is a command of the holy ones, In order that the living may know That the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind, And He grants it to whomever He wishes And sets over it the lowliest of people.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֱנָשׁhuman 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קוּםappoint 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- בָּזָה bâzâh · H959 · to despise, to disdain, to scorn
- Hebrew adjective meaning 'despised' or 'contemptible,' overlaps with שְׁפַל (shᵉphal, H8215) in expressing lowness of status or baseness, though בָּזָה (bâzâh, H959) emphasizes contempt while שְׁפַל (shᵉphal, H8215) emphasizes rank or position.
- קָלָה qâlâh · H7034 · base, contemn, despise
- Hebrew adjective meaning 'lightly esteemed' or 'base,' semantically overlaps with שְׁפַל (shᵉphal, H8215) in describing low status or baseness.
Contrasting words 2 words
- גָּבֹהַּ gâbôahh · H1364 · high, tall, height
- Hebrew adjective meaning 'high' or 'exalted,' the direct lexical opposite of שְׁפַל (shᵉphal, H8215) 'basest/lowest' in terms of status, rank, or position.
- רוּם rûwm · H7311 · to be high, to become high, to mount up
- Hebrew adjective/verb meaning 'high' or 'exalted,' lexical opposite of שְׁפַל (shᵉphal, H8215) describing elevation rather than lowness of rank or position.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ταπεινός tapeinós · G5011 · dejected, downheearted, downcast
- Greek adjective denoting lowness in status or position, a direct translation equivalent for the Aramaic שְׁפַל (shᵉphal, H8215) šᵉpal describing the 'basest' or lowest rank in Daniel 4:17.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Insignificant002001002015
- Daniel 4:17 recounts that the Most High "sets over" every realm "the lowliest of people."
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8215. shephal שְׁפַל adjective low in station; — construct ׳שׁ Dan 4:14.
שְׁפַל adjective low in station; — construct ׳שׁ Dan 4:14.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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