- Original: שׁפל - Transliteration: Shaphel - Phonetic: shaw-fale' - Definition: 1. to be or become low, sink, be humbled, be abased a. (Qal) to be or become low b. (Hiphil) 1. to lay or bring low, humiliate 2. to set in a lower place, show abasement 3. to make low, sit down - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 2445 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to depress or sink (especially figuratively to humiliate intransitively or transitively): - abase bring (cast put) down debase humble (self) be (bring lay make put) low (-er). Total KJV Occurrences: 31 • abase, 2 Job 40:11; Ezekiel 21:26 • debase, 1 Isaiah 57:9 • down, 9 2 Samuel 22:28; 2 Samuel 22:48; Job 22:29; Psalm 18:27; Psalm 75:7; Psalm 147:6; Isaiah 25:11; Isaiah 29:4; Ezekiel 17:24 • humbled, 4 Isaiah 2:11; Isaiah 5:15(2); Isaiah 10:33 • humbleth, 2 Psalm 113:6; Isaiah 2:9 • low, 11 1 Samuel 2:7; Proverbs 29:23; Ecclesiastes 12:4; Isaiah 2:12; Isaiah 2:17; Isaiah 13:11; Isaiah 25:12; Isaiah 26:5(2); Isaiah 32:19; Isaiah 40:4 • lower, 1 Proverbs 25:7 • yourselves, 1 Jeremiah 13:18