שִׁגָּעוֹן
shiggâʻôwn · H7697 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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madness
State of being (considered) out of one's mind; often used as an insult, especially of prophets
ExamplesDeuteronomy 28:28 “The LORD will strike you with insanity, blindness, and with confusion of mind;
2 Kings 9:20 And the watchman reported, “He came up to them, but he did not return; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”
Zechariah 12:4 “On that day,” declares the LORD, “I will strike every horse with confusion and its rider with insanity. But I will watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
How it’s used In 1 role
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3 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 4
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Near synonyms 4 words
- הוֹלֵלוּת hôwlêlûwth · H1948 · madness
- Both denote forms of mental derangement or madness; the second adds the sense "furiously."
- תִּפְלָה tiphlâh · H8604 · irrationality, senselessness
- This appears to be a real near-synonym pairing.
- סִכְלוּת çiklûwth · H5531 · folly, foolishness
- Both words describe forms of irrational or disordered thinking and behavior: folly or foolishness (סִכְלוּת) and madness (שִׁגָּעוֹן) are distinct but overlapping concepts, and both could be used in contexts describing mental or behavioral disorder.
- הוֹלֵלָה hôwlêlâh · H1947 · madness
- Both denote states of madness.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Foolish002001002010
- Deuteronomy 28:28 warns, "The LORD will strike you with insanity," and Zechariah 12:4 says the LORD will strike "its rider with insanity," both directly attesting the madness this word denotes; 2 Kings 9:20's "driving furiously" reflects this same word's frenzied, wild-acting sense.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7697. shiggaon שִׁגָּעוֺן noun masculine madness; — בְּשׁ ׳הִכָּה Deu 28:28 smite with…
שִׁגָּעוֺן noun masculine madness; — בְּשׁ ׳הִכָּה Deu 28:28 smite with madness, figurative of wild and helpless panic (|| עִוָּרוֺן), לֵבָב תִּמְהוֺן, Zec 12:4 (|| תִּמָּהוֺן); ׳בְּשׁ 2Ki 9:20 (hyperb.) madly.
שׁגר (√of following; compare Aramaic שְׁגַר cast, throw, Exo 13:12 ᵑ7J drop young, misit, demisit (rare); compare DrDeu 7:13).
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
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