# H8213 שָׁפֵל

שָׁפֵל (shâphêl), Strong’s H8213: to depress or sink (expectation figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive) KJV: abase, bring (cast, put) down, debase, humble (self), be (bring, lay…

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*shâphêl* — to depress or sink (expectation figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive)

KJV: abase, bring (cast, put) down, debase, humble (self), be (bring, lay, make, put) low(-er).

Occurs 29 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שָׁפֵל vb. be or become low, be abased
- Qal
- 1 all Is: become (be brought, laid) low
- 2 to be lowly of spirit
- 3 of sound
- Hiph.
- 1 usu. fig., lay low
- 2 hum. subj. set one in a lower place
- 3 as helping vb.: make low, sit down = take low seat

## Where it occurs
- [1 Samuel 2:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=7) — The LORD makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
- [2 Samuel 22:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/22?v=28) — You will save the afflicted people, but your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.
- [Isaiah 2:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/2?v=9) — Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don’t forgive them.
- [Isaiah 2:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/2?v=11) — The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and the LORD alone will be exalted…
- [Isaiah 2:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/2?v=12) — For there will be a day of the LORD of Hosts for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up, and it…
- [Isaiah 2:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/2?v=17) — The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and the LORD alone shall be…
- [Isaiah 5:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/5?v=15) — So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
- [Isaiah 10:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=33) — Behold, the Lord, GOD of Hosts, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be…
- [Isaiah 13:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/13?v=11) — I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to…
- [Isaiah 25:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/25?v=11) — He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be…