low (location)
→
meek
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| lexeme | šāpāl | |
| meaning 1 | low | wə-yādəʕū kol-ʕăṣē ha-śśāde kī ʔănī yhwh hišpaltī ʕēṣ gāboăh higbahtī ʕēṣ šāpāl (Hez. 17:24) And all the trees learned that I, Yahwe, felled the high tree, made high the low tree. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | humble | kī-rām yhwh wə-šāpāl yirʔe wə-gāboăh mi-mmerḥāḳ yəyēdāʕ (Ps. 138:6) Because Yhwh is in the highness and sees a humble one, and he knows a proud one from far. |
| reference | HALOT: 1506-1507 | |
| comment | Сf. also Is. 57:15: mārom wə-ḳādoš ʔeškon wə-ʔet-dakkā wū-šəpal-rūăḥ lə-haḥăyot rūăḥ šəpālīm wū-lə-haḥăyot lēb nidkāʔīm 'I dwell in a high and holy place, and also with the contrite and lowly of spirit in order to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme 1 | tāḥtāy | |
| lexeme 2 | təḥut | |
| meaning 1 | lower, inferior | kanfaru tāḥtāy yaʕabbi His lower lip is big. |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | humble, humiliated | yawāhān wa-təḥutān (Jes. 26:6) the mild and the humble |
| reference | CDG: 572 LLA: 553-554 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | Latin | |
| language 2 | French | |
| lexeme 1 | humilis | |
| lexeme 2 | humble | |
| meaning 1 | low, close to the ground | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | humble | |
| reference | Sakhno 2009: 107 | |
| comment | ||