שָׁקַף
shâqaph · shaw-kaf'
properly, to lean out (of a window), i.e. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a spectacle)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to lean out (of a window), i.e. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a spectacle)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: appear, look (down, forth, out).
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › what comes behind, the returning cycle › to speak, the word
To consume, to destroy of what comes behind, the returning cycle that works to speak, the word.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׁקַף above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
22 occurrences · 22 OT · 0 NT · 19 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- looked4 · 18%
- that looketh2 · 9%
- look down2 · 9%
- looked down2 · 9%
- from thence, and looked1 · 5%
- and he looked1 · 5%
- looked out1 · 5%
- which looketh1 · 5%
- and looked out1 · 5%
- who is on my side? who? and there looked out1 · 5%
- looking out1 · 5%
- shall look down1 · 5%
- for he hath looked down1 · 5%
- i looked1 · 5%
- who is she that looketh forth1 · 5%
- appeareth1 · 5%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.