שֵׁאת
shêʼth · H7612 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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waste, desolation
State in which buildings and infrastructure have been destroyed
ExamplesLamentations 3:47 Panic and pitfall have come upon us, Devastation and destruction;
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- שׁוֹא shôwʼ · H7722 · total desolation, total destruction, devastating storm
- Hebrew noun denoting devastation or ruin, closely synonymous with שֵׁאת in expressing complete desolation and destruction
- שַׁמָּה shammâh · H8047 · desolation, horror
- Hebrew noun for desolation and devastation, often used in prophetic texts to describe ruined places and wastelands
- חׇרְבָּה chorbâh · H2723 · desolation, ruin, uninhabitable place
- Hebrew noun for ruins or waste places, semantically parallel to שֵׁאת in describing places laid waste
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἐρήμωσις erḗmōsis · G2050 · destroyed, destruction, desolation
- Greek noun denoting desolation or devastation, a direct translation equivalent for the Hebrew שֵׁאת in contexts of ruin and waste
- ἐρημία erēmía · G2047 · desert, wilderness, lonely place
- Greek noun for solitude/desolate place, overlapping with Hebrew שֵׁאת in the semantic domain of desolation and uninhabited wasteland
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Impact002001001024
- Lamentations 3:47 pairs this word with "devastation and destruction" amid "panic and pitfall," directly attesting the ruinous, destructive blow this word denotes.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7612. sheth שֵׁאת noun feminine doubtful word; perhaps (for *שֶׁאֶת) din of battle (=…
שֵׁאת noun feminine doubtful word; perhaps (for *שֶׁאֶת) din of battle (= שָׁאוֺן); Thes and others devastation, compare שְׁאִיָּה; either meaning suits ׳הַשּׁ Lam 3:47 (|| הַשָּׁ֑בֶר; but Wecompare Hex. 2, 351, from II. שׁוא, desolation); contracted (according to Thes and most) שֵׁת, in שֵׁת בְּנֵי Num 24:17 (J) sons of (battle-)din (warriors, = שָׁאוֺןבְּנֵי in || Jer 48:45); Vrss take שֵׁת here as proper name; Gray proposes שֵׂת = שְׂאֵת, pride, or reading as Jeremiah compare Wecomp. Hex.351.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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