International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Peep

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Peep


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pēp (צפף, cāphaph; the King James Version ; (the Revised Version (British and American) “chirp”)): In , the word describes the sound made by a nestling bird; in , the changed (ventriloquistic?) voice of necromancers uttering sounds that purported to come from the feeble dead. The modern use of “peep” = “look” is found in Sirach 21:23, as the translation of παρακύπτω, parakúptō: “A foolish man peepeth in from the door of another man's house.”