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# שֵׁפֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8216

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

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

low estate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8216/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׁ֫פֶל: low estate, condition [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8216/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] low estate, condition;—abs. שׁ׳ Ec 10:6 (opp. מְרוֹמִים); sf. שִׁפְלֵנוּ ψ 136:23.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 136:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.136.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.136.23/#tree)

שֶׁ֭בְּשִׁפְלֵנוּ זָ֣כַר לָ֑נוּ כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* who in our.low condition he.remembered (to) us (dm) \[is\] forever loyalty his.covenant

*JPS 1917:* Who remembered us in our low estate, for His mercy endureth for ever;

[Ecclesiastes 10:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.6/#tree)

נִתַּ֣ן הַסֶּ֔כֶל בַּמְּרוֹמִ֖ים רַבִּ֑ים וַעֲשִׁירִ֖ים בַּשֵּׁ֥פֶל יֵשֵֽׁבוּ׃

*Word for word:* it.is.put (the) folly in.(the) high places many and rich.\[people\] in the.low place they.sit

*JPS 1917:* Folly is set on great heights, and the rich sit in low place.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8216.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8216/): 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).