# שָׁקַף (shaqaf)

Israeli respelling: sha-qaf. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8259. 22 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: appear, look (down, forth, out).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shaqaf-h8259

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 18:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/18/16) — And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
- [Genesis 19:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/28) — And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the…
- [Genesis 26:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/26/8) — And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behol…
- [Exodus 14:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/14/24) — And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud,…
- [Numbers 21:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/20) — And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
- [Numbers 23:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/23/28) — And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
- [Deuteronomy 26:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/15) — Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto o…
- [Judges 5:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/28) — The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of h…
- [1 Samuel 13:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/13/18) — And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim t…
- [2 Samuel 6:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/6/16) — And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and danc…
- [2 Samuel 24:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/24/20) — And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his…
- [2 Kings 9:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/30) — And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
- [2 Kings 9:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/32) — And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
- [1 Chronicles 15:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/15/29) — And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul looking out at a w…
- [Psalms 14:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/14/2) — The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
- [Psalms 53:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/53/2) — God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
- [Psalms 85:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/85/11) — Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
- [Psalms 102:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/19) — For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
- [Proverbs 7:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/7/6) — For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
- [Song of Solomon 6:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/6/10) — Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
- [Jeremiah 6:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/1) — O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fir…
- [Lamentations 3:50](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/50) — Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.