שָׁקַף shâqaph — properly, to lean out (of a window), i.e. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a spectacle)
Translated in the KJV as appear, look (down, forth, out).
a primitive root; properly, to lean out (of a window), i.e. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a spectacle).
shâqaph in each stem
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 7Perfect (qatal) 3Imperative 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 6Participle (active) 4
And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
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 ›