# H8259 שָׁקַף

שָׁקַף (shâqaph), Strong’s H8259: properly, to lean out (of a window), i.e. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a spectacle) KJV: appear, look (down, forth, out).. Occurs 22 times.

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

KJV: appear, look (down, forth, out).

Occurs 22 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [שָׁקַף] vb. Niph. Hiph. overhang, look out and down
- Niph. lean over (and look), look down
- Hiph. look down

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 18:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=16) — The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
- [Genesis 19:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=28) — He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up…
- [Genesis 26:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=8) — When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold…
- [Exodus 14:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/14?v=24) — In the morning watch, the LORD looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused…
- [Numbers 21:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=20) — and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
- [Numbers 23:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/23?v=28) — Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
- [Deuteronomy 26:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/26?v=15) — Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us…
- [Judges 5:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/5?v=28) — “Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice. ‘Why is his chariot so long…
- [1 Samuel 13:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/13?v=18) — another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the…
- [2 Samuel 6:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/6?v=16) — As the LORD’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window and saw King David…