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Isaiah 29:4
“And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H8213 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to depress or sink (expectation figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- abase, bring (cast, put) down, debase, humble (self), be (bring, lay, make, put) low(-er).
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- שָׁפַלְתְּ֙ — verb Qal, sequential perfect, 2nd person, feminine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 29 times in the Hebrew Bible.1 Samuel 2:72 Samuel 22:28Job 22:29Job 40:11Psalms 18:28
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שָׁפֵל here.
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.