Genesis 6:16
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
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Lower
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Hebrews 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
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4 occurrences in 4 verses.
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תַּחְתּוֹן
tachtôwn · takh-tone'
5 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
bottommost
Strong's KJV usage: lower(-est), nether(-most).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 22:9Strong's last: Ezekiel 43:14
Open full H8481 profile →שָׁפָל
shâphâl · shaw-fawl'
4 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
depressed, literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: base(-st), humble, low(-er, -ly).
Strong's first: Leviticus 13:20Strong's last: Leviticus 14:37
Open full H8217 profile →ἐλαττόω
elattóō · el-at-to'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to lessen (in rank or influence)
Strong's KJV usage: :--decrease, make lower.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Hebrews 2:7Strong's last: Hebrews 2:9
Open full G1642 profile →תַּחְתִּי
tachtîy · takh-tee'
2 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
lowermost; as noun (feminine plural) the depths (figuratively, a pit, the womb)
Strong's KJV usage: low (parts, -er, -er parts, -est), nether (part).
Strong's first: Genesis 6:16Strong's last: Nehemiah 4:13
Open full H8482 profile →κατώτερος
katṓteros · kat-o'-ter-os
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
inferior (locally, of Hades)
Strong's KJV usage: :--lower.
Strong's first: Ephesians 4:9Strong's last: Ephesians 4:9
Open full G2737 profile →חָסֵר
châçêr · khaw-sare'
1 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
to lack; by implication, to fail, want, lessen
Strong's KJV usage: be abated, bereave, decrease, (cause to) fail, (have) lack, make lower, want.
Strong's first: Psalms 8:5Strong's last: Psalms 8:5
Open full H2637 profile →שָׁפֵל
shâphêl · shaw-fale'
1 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences
to depress or sink (especially figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive)
Strong's KJV usage: abase, bring (cast, put) down, debase, humble (self), be (bring, lay, make, put) low(-er).
Strong's first: Proverbs 25:7Strong's last: Proverbs 25:7
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H8482
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
H8217
And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.
H8217
But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
H8217
But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
H8217
And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
H8482
Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
H2637
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
no direct Strong's tag
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
H8213
For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
H8481
Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
no direct Strong's tag
Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
H8481
And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.
H8481
Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.
H8481
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
H8481
And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
G2737
(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
G1642
Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
G1642
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
English meaning and historical usage.
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lower
LOWER, verb transitive [from low.]
1. To cause to descend; to let down; to take or bring down; as, to lower the main-sail of a sloop.
2. To suffer to sink downwards.
3. To bring down; to reduce or humble; as, to lower the pride of man.
4. To lessen; to diminish; to reduce, as value or amount; as, to lower the price or value of goods, or the rate of interest.
LOWER, verb intransitive To fall; to sink; to grow less.
LOW'ER, verb intransitive
1. To appear dark or gloomy; to be clouded; to threaten a storm.
And all the clouds that lowered upon your house.
The lowering spring.
2. To frown; to look sullen.
But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.
LOW'ER, noun
1. Cloudiness; gloominess.
2. A frowning; sullenness.
LOWER, adjective [comparative of low.] Less high or elevated.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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