# G3879 παρακύπτω

παρακύπτω (parakýptō), Strong’s G3879: to bend beside, i.e. lean over (so as to peer within) KJV: look (into), stoop down. Occurs 9 times.

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*parakýptō* — to bend beside, i.e. lean over (so as to peer within)

KJV: look (into), stoop down

Built from [παρά pará](https://besorah.bible/word/G3844) (near) + [κύπτω kýptō](https://besorah.bible/word/G2955) (to bend forward)

Occurs 9 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Luke 24:12](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/24?v=12) — But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he…
- [John 20:5](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/20?v=5) — Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying there; yet he didn’t enter in.
- [John 20:11](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/20?v=11) — But Miriam was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,
- [Jacob 1:25](https://besorah.bible/besorah/jacob/1?v=25) — But he who looks into the perfect Torah of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the…
- [1 Peter 1:12](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-peter/1?v=12) — To them it was revealed that they served not themselves, but you, in these things, which now have been announced to you…
- [Sirach 14:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/14?v=23) — He who peers in at her windows will also listen at her doors.
- [Sirach 21:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/21?v=23) — A foolish man peers into the door of a house, but a man who is instructed will stand outside.