שָׁאָה
shâʼâh · H7582 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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to lie waste, to lie in ruins
State in which buildings and infrastructure have been destroyed
ExamplesIsaiah 6:11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered, “Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant, Houses are without people And the land is utterly desolate,
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to lay waste
Causative action by which humans bring destruction to buildings and infrastructure
Examples2 Kings 19:25 ‘Have you not heard? Long ago I did it; From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it about, That you would turn fortified cities into ruined heaps.
Isaiah 37:26 “Have you not heard? Long ago I did it, From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it about That you would turn fortified cities into ruined heaps.
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to roar
Process by which a political entity, like a nation or kingdom, is in a state of unrest, often meaning that they are contemplating rebellion or planning to wage war; described in terms of the sound produced by turbulent waters
ExamplesIsaiah 17:12 Oh, the uproar of many peoples Who roar like the roaring of the seas, And the rumbling of nations Who rush on like the rumbling of mighty waters!
Isaiah 17:13 The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters, But He will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, And be chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind, Or like whirling dust before a gale.
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
Who or what does itSubject
6 occurrences in 5 groups
- Not stated (infinitive) 2
- אֲדָמָהground 1
- לְאֹםpeople 1
- עִירcity, town 1
- Not stated: they 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- עִירcity, town 2
Second objectAs in “call him Lord”
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- גַּלwave 2
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- כlike/as+ שָׁאוֹןroaring 2
- מִןfrom+ אַיִןthere is no, not 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
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.
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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Impact002001001024
- 2 Kings 19:25 and Isaiah 37:26 both describe turning "fortified cities into ruined heaps," and Isaiah 6:11 speaks of cities "devastated," both attesting the ruinous, laying-waste sense this word denotes.
- Unsafe002003003022
- Isaiah 6:11 continues that "the land is utterly desolate," attesting the ruinous, dangerous devastation this word describes.
- See002004001005
- This domain belongs to the identically-spelled homograph meaning "wonder" (attested at Genesis 24:21, "taking a close look... in silence, to find out"), rather than to this word's "desolate/rush/waste" sense.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7582. shaah I. [שָׁאָה] verb make a din or crash, crash into ruins (perhaps akin to…
I. [שָׁאָה] verb make a din or crash, crash into ruins (perhaps akin to שׁוֺאָה (√ שׁוא) storm, devastation; >Aramaic be deserted, שַׁהֲוָתָא שַׁהֲוָוא, desert); —
Qal Perfect3plural שָׁאוּ Isa 6:11 until cities have crashed into ruins; + perhaps Nah 1:5 (p. 671a).
Niph`al Imperfect3feminine singular שְׁמָמָה תִּשָּׁאֶה Isa 6:11, usually, and the ground be ruined into a desolation, but ᵐ5 Lo Du Marti תִּשָּׁאֵר be left a desolation; 3 masculine plural יִשָּׁא֑וּן Isa 17:12 they are in uproar (of nations, || יֶהֱמָיוּן), Isa 17:13 (but strike out as doublet Du CheHpt Marti).
Hiph`il Infinitive construct לְהַשְׁאוֺת Isa 37:26, = לַהְשׁוֺת 2Ki 19:25 (Ges§ 23f Köi. 570, who follow van d. H. in giving לְהַשְׁאוֺת as Qr, but see Baer Gi), to cause ... cities to crash into ruined heaps.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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
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