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שֶׁפֶל

shephel · H8216 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. humble position

    Literally: lowness; hence: state in which humans have a relatively low status in their own eyes or in the eyes of others

    Examples

    Psalm 136:23 Who remembered us in our lowliness, For His faithfulness is everlasting,

    Ecclesiastes 10:6 foolishness is set in many exalted places while the rich sit in humble places.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Insignificant002001002015
This noun denotes a humbled, lowly condition, as in Psalm 136:23's thanksgiving that the LORD remembered His people in their lowliness.
Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

שָׁפֵל shâphêl · H8213 · to become low, to be low · 31×שְׁפֵלָה shᵉphêlâh · H8219 · Western Foothills, Shephelah · 20×שָׁפָל shâphâl · H8217 · low, deep · 17×שְׁפַל shᵉphal · H8214 · abase, humble, put down · 4×שֶׁפֶלshephel · H8216שְׁפַל shᵉphal · H8215 · basest · 1×שִׁפְלָה shiphlâh · H8218 · brought low, laid low · 1×שִׁפְלוּת shiphlûwth · H8220 · idleness, indolence · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8216. shephel שֵׁ֫פֶל noun [masculine] low estate, condition; — absolute ׳שׁ Ecc 10:6…
H8216. shephel
שֵׁ֫פֶל noun [masculine] low estate, condition; — absolute ׳שׁ Ecc 10:6 (opposed to מְרוֺמִים); suffix שִׁפְלֵנוּ Psalm 136:33.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Insignificant2 occurrences

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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