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# שְׁפֵל

Biblical Aramaic

**be low** — used 4 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be low [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5e4_5b5_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁפֵל: vb. be low [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5e4_5b5_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be low (v. BH);— bring low, humble: Pf. 2 ms. הַשְׁפֵּלְתְּ לִבְבָךְ Dn 5:22 thou hast not humbled thine heart: Impf. 3 ms. יְהַשְׁפִּ֑ל 7:24, Inf. לְהַשְׁפָּלָה 4:34, Pt. מַשְׁפִּ֑ל 5:19, all. c. acc. pers. bring low, put down.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bring low (1); bringing low (1); he will bring low (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.22/#tree)

וְאַ֤נְתְּ בְּרֵהּ֙ בֵּלְשַׁאצַּ֔ר לָ֥א הַשְׁפֵּ֖לְתְּ לִבְבָ֑ךְ כָּל־קֳבֵ֕ל דִּ֥י כָל־דְּנָ֖ה יְדַֽעְתָּ׃

*Word for word:* and you son his O.Belshazzar not you.have.brought.low heart your as to because that all this you.knew

*JPS 1917:* And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this;

[Daniel 7:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.24/#tree)

וְקַרְנַיָּ֣א עֲשַׂ֔ר מִנַּהּ֙ מַלְכוּתָ֔ה עַשְׂרָ֥ה מַלְכִ֖ין יְקֻמ֑וּן וְאָחֳרָ֞ן יְק֣וּם אַחֲרֵיה֗וֹן וְה֤וּא יִשְׁנֵא֙ מִן־קַדְמָיֵ֔א וּתְלָתָ֥ה מַלְכִ֖ין יְהַשְׁפִּֽל׃

*Word for word:* and the horns ten from it the kingdom ten kings they.will.arise and another he.will.arise after them and he he.will.be.different from the.former \[kings\] and three kings he.will.bring.low

*JPS 1917:* And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall ten kings arise; and another shall arise after them; and he shall be diverse from the former, and he shall put down three kings.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5e4_5b5_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5e4_5b5_5dc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).