Word

שְׁאָגָה

shᵉʼâgâh · H7581 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences

See all 7 in Search

Meanings

roar, groaning

Action by which animals, humans, or deities produce a full, deep, prolonged sound as made by a lion

Examples
Job 3:24 “For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water.
Job 4:10 “The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions are broken out.
Psalm 22:1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Far from my help are the words of my groaning.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

6 occurrences in 4 groups

יmy 3
כְּפִירyoung lion 1
אֲרִיlion 1
הוּhis 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

נָתַךְto pour 1
נָתַעto break out 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לָבִיאlioness 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

קוֹלvoice, sound 2
דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Near synonyms 1 word

נְהָמָה nᵉhâmâh · H5100 · roaring, growling, groaning: Both denote kinds of roaring sound.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Sounds002004001009007: Job 4:10 speaks of "the roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion," and Isaiah 5:29 says of the invading nation, "Its roaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions," both directly attesting the roaring sound this word denotes.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

שָׁאַג shâʼag · H7580 · to roar, to groan · 20×שְׁאָגָהshᵉʼâgâh · H7581

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7581. sheagah שְׁאָגָה noun feminine roaring; — 1 like lion, absolute ׳שׁ Isa 5:29 (of…

H7581. sheagah
שְׁאָגָה noun feminine roaring; —
1 like lion, absolute ׳שׁ Isa 5:29 (of invaders); of lion, construct שַׁאֲגַת Zec 11:3; Job 4:10 (figurative of wicked), suffix שַׁאֲגָתוֺ קוֺל Eze 19:7 (figurative of conquering king).
2 human cry in distress, שַׁאֲגְתִי Psa 32:3, שׁ ׳דִּבְרֵי Psa 22:2, שַׁאֲגֹתָ֑י Job 3:24.
שֹׁאָה see שׁוֺאָה below שׁוא.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Sounds7 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0