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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - שָׁפֵל

שָׁפֵל

H8213

Transliteration: shâphêl

Pronunciation: shaw-fale'

Definition: abase


Original: שׁפל

Transliteration: shâphêl

Phonetic: shaw-fale'

BDB Definition:

  1. to be or become low, sink, be humbled, be abased
    1. (Qal) to be or become low
    2. (Hiphil)
      1. to lay or bring low, humiliate
      2. to set in a lower place, show abasement
      3. to make low, sit down

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 2445

Part(s) of speech: Verb


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