Strong's #8213: shaphel (pronounced shaw-fale')

a primitive root; to depress or sink (expec. figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive):--abase, bring (cast, put) down, debase, humble (self), be (bring, lay, make, put) low(-er).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ

shâphêl

1) to be or become low, sink, be humbled, be abased

1a) (Qal) to be or become low

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to lay or bring low, humiliate

1b2) to set in a lower place, show abasement

1b3) to make low, sit down

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 31 times:

 

1 Samuel 2:7: "The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up."
2 Samuel 22:28: "but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down."
2 Samuel 22:48: "It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under"
Job 22:29: "When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person."
Job 40:11: "and behold every one that is proud, and abase"
Psalms 18:27: "save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks."
Psalms 75:7: "But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another."
Psalms 113:6: " Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!"
Psalms 147:6: "The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground."
Proverbs 25:7: "it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom"
Proverbs 29:23: "A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit."
Ecclesiastes 12:4: "in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all"
Isaiah 2:9: "And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not."
Isaiah 2:11: "The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD"
Isaiah 2:12: "and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:"
Isaiah 2:17: "shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that"
Isaiah 5:15: "And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:"
Isaiah 5:15: "shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:"
Isaiah 10:33: "of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled."
Isaiah 13:11: "and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible."
Isaiah 25:11: "he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands."
Isaiah 25:12: "of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust."
Isaiah 26:5: "on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth"
Isaiah 26:5: "the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to"
Isaiah 29:4: " And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust,"
Isaiah 32:19: "coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place."
Isaiah 40:4: "and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places"
Isaiah 57:9: "and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell."
Jeremiah 13:18: "Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down,"
Ezekiel 17:24: "that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low"
Ezekiel 21:26: "be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high."