Strong’s H8259 · Hebrew

שָׁקַף
shâqaph
shaw-kaf'

Definition

properly, to lean out (of a window), i.e. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a spectacle)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • appear
  • look (down
  • forth
  • out)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.