שָׁפֵל shâphêl — to depress or sink (especially figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive)
Translated in the KJV as abase, bring (cast, put) down, debase, humble, be (bring, lay, make, put) low.
a primitive root; to depress or sink (especially figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive).
shâphêl in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 7Participle (active) 3Perfect (qatal) 3Imperative 2Infinitive construct 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1
The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Wayyiqtol 2Perfect (qatal) 1
And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›