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Genesis 19:28

“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.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

שָׁקַףshâqaph · shaw-kaf'
H8259 · Hebrew

Definition: properly, to lean out (of a window), i.e. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a spectacle)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV renderings: appear, look (down, forth, out).
Grammar: וַ — conjunction
יַּשְׁקֵ֗ף — verb Hiphil, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
Code HC/Vhw3ms
Usage: Occurs 22 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 18:16 Genesis 26:8 Exodus 14:24 Numbers 21:20 Numbers 23:28

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Verse 27 Verse 29

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.