שָׁקוּף
window frame
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H8261 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Kings 2 verses
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“window frame” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun שקף (shâquph). With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in 1 Kings. First canonically at 1 Kings 6:4, it enters the text early. It shares a root with שקף, משקוף and שקף. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8261 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Kings 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Lights 1×, Were windows 1×
- American Standard Version: Lattice-work 1×, Were beams 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Framed high 1×, Windows 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Frames 1×, The 1×, Window frames 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8261 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8261 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8261 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8261 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- frame, casing (of windows), beams laid over, window frames
Word origin
[ שָׁקוּף, שְׁקוּף ] n.m. frame, casing of windows
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שקף (shâqaph) (H8259) — to look down.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
סְקַף II
- (Saf. of נ־קף, v. נקף I) to bring close together, knock, clap. Targ. O. Num. XXIV, 10 ed. Lsb. (ed. Berl. a. oth. שקפ׳; Ms. I שפק׳).
- same. Targ. Job XXVII, 23 Ms. (ed. ישקוף; ed. Lag. a. oth. ישפיק).—V. שְׁקַף
שָׁקַף I
- to bend, arch.—Denom. שְׁקוֹף, מַשְׁקוֹף.
- [to be bent towards,] to look out; to face, be seen. Y. M. Kat. III, beg. 81ᶜ (in a riddle) משמים נִשְׁקָפָה she (the soul?) looks down from heaven. Num. R. s. 1926 (ref. to Num. XXI, 20) העומד … והוא הבאר הנִשְׁקָף וכ׳ he that stands on the face (plateau) of Jeshimon sees something in the sea (of Tiberias) …, and this is the well (of Miriam) which is seen from Jeshimon; (v. Lev. R. s. 22; Koh. R. to V, 8; Y. Kil. IX, 32ᶜ bot.). e.g. Numbers 21:20
- 1. to look, contemplate. Ber. 29ᵃ top ה׳ בה שתים וכ׳ he thought over it (trying to recall it) two or three minutes.
- 2. (denom. of שְׁקוֹף) to arch, curve, diminish the width of. Gen. R. s. 31 והיה מַשְׁקִיף בה ועולה וכ׳ and he curved it (the wall of the ark) as he went up &c., v. קַמְרוֹטוֹן; Yalk. ib. 54.
שָׁקַף II
- (Shaf. of נ־קף, cmp. סְקַף II) to bring in close contact, to knock. Ned. 55ᵃ (ref. to Num. XXI, 19) כיון שנחלו אל … ולא עוד אלא ששׁוֹקְפִין אותו בקרקע Ar. (ed. ששוקעין, corr. acc., v. Rashi a. l.) when God gives a man possession (of the Law), he rises to greatness; but if he raises himself, the Lord will lower him, and moreover, they will knock him down in the ground (play on ונשקפה Num. l. c. 20). e.g. Numbers 21:19
- to shut fast. Deut. R. s. 11 הַשְׁקֵף עיניך זה על גב זה וה׳ וכ׳ shut thy eyes, one (eyelid) upon the other. and he did &c.; (Yalk. ib. 940 הַשְׁכֵּב … והִשְׁכִּיב).
שְׁקַף
- 1. to knock, smite together, strike. Targ. O. Num. XXIV, 10, v. סְקַף II. Targ. Esth. VI, 1. Targ. Is. XXV, 4; a. e.
- 2. (of the wind) to knock about, blast, drive about (corresp. to h. שדף a. נדף).—Part. pass. שָׁקִיף, שְׁקִיף; f. שְׁקִיפָא; pl. שְׁקִיפִין; שְׁקִיפַן. Targ. O. Lev. XXVI, 36. Targ. Gen. XLI, 6; 23; 27; a. e.
- , Af. אַשְׁקֵיף
- 1. same. Targ. I Sam. II, 10 (h. text ירעם). Targ. Job XXXII, 13 (h. text ידפנו). Targ. Ps. I, 4; a. e.—Part. pass. מְשַׁקַּף or מַשְׁקַף. Ab. Zar. 28ᵇ דלא מ׳ Ms. M. (ed. מִשְּׁקִיף, Ithpe.) (wool) that has not been beaten (hatchelled).
- 2. (cmp. preced. Hif.) to shut.—Part. pass. as ab. Lev. R. s. 5 תרעא מ׳ וכ׳ (some ed. משקיף) she finds the door shut, and she opens it.
- to be knocked about, driven off (by the wind). Targ. Ps. LXVIII, 3 היכמא די שְׁקִיף … יִשְׁתּקְּפוּן (not ישקפון) as the smoke is driven, so shall they be driven.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H8261 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/שְׁקֻפִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 7:4 | 1 |
| שְׁקֻפִ֥ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 6:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8261, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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