שָׁקַף shâqaph (H8259)

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

1) to overlook, look down or out, overhang, look out and down 1a) (Niphal) to lean over (and look), look down 1b) (Hiphil) to look down, look down upon

a primitive root;