שָׁקַף shâqaph

Meaning

properly, to lean out (of a window), i.e. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a spectacle)

In the King James Version: appear, look (down, forth, out).

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Genesis 18:16 When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.
• Genesis 19:28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
• Genesis 26:8 When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
• Exodus 14:24 At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
• Numbers 21:20 and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
• Numbers 23:28 And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.
• Deuteronomy 26:15 Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.”
• Judges 5:28 Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’
• 1 Samuel 13:18 another toward Beth-horon, and the third down the border road overlooking the Valley of Zeboim facing the wilderness.
• 2 Samuel 6:16 As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
• 2 Samuel 24:20 When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.
• 2 Kings 9:30 Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.
• 2 Kings 9:32 He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three eunuchs looked down at him.
• 1 Chronicles 15:29 As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.
• Psalms 14:2 The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.
• Psalms 53:2 God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.
• Psalms 85:11 Faithfulness sprouts from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven.
• Psalms 102:19 For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth
• Proverbs 7:6 For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.
• Song of Solomon 6:10 Who is this who shines like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as the stars in procession?
• Jeremiah 6:1 “Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.
• Lamentations 3:50 until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.