Strong's #8259: shaqaph (pronounced shaw-kaf')

a primitive root; properly, to lean out (of a window), i.e. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a spectacle):-- appear, look (down, forth, out).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shâqaph

1) to overlook, look down or out, overhang, look out and down

1a) (Niphal) to lean over (and look), look down

1b) (Hiphil) to look down, look down upon

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

 

Genesis 18:16: "And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom:"
Genesis 19:28: " And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all"
Genesis 26:8: "that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold,"
Exodus 14:24: "that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar"
Numbers 21:20: "is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon."
Numbers 23:28: "Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon."
Deuteronomy 26:15: " Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless"
Judges 5:28: "The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice,"
1 Samuel 13:18: "turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness."
2 Samuel 6:16: "Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw"
2 Samuel 24:20: "And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward"
2 Kings 9:30: "her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window."
2 Kings 9:32: "Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs."
1 Chronicles 15:29: "that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw"
Psalms 14:2: "The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see"
Psalms 53:2: "God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see"
Psalms 85:11: "shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven."
Psalms 102:19: "For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD"
Proverbs 7:6: "For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,"
Song of Solomon 6:10: "Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun,"
Jeremiah 6:1: "in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great"
Lamentations 3:50: "Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven."