Word

שָׁעָה

shâʻâh · H8160 · Aramaic · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

moment

A very short length of time

Examples
Daniel 4:19 “Then Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar, was appalled for a while as his thoughts alarmed him. The king responded and said, ‘Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its interpretation alarm you.’ Belteshazzar replied, ‘My lord, if only the dream applied to those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries!
in a moment, immediately

Expression denoting that an event takes place without any delay

Examples
Daniel 3:6 “But whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be thrown into the middle of a furnace of blazing fire.”
Daniel 3:15 “Now if you are ready, at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery and bagpipe, and all kinds of musical instruments, to fall down and worship the statue that I have made, very well. But if you do not worship, you will immediately be thrown into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and what god is there who can rescue you from my hands?”
Daniel 4:33 “Immediately the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled; and he was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

How it’s used In 3 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

חַדa 1

Named alongside itApposition

4 occurrences in 1 groups

הָher 4

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

כlike/as 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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In the other Testament 1 word

ὥρα hṓra · G5610 · time, occasion, a while: Greek ὥρα is the standard translation equivalent for Aramaic שָׁעָה in Daniel, both denoting a temporal unit ('hour') or a specific moment in time.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Time002002002010: Daniel 3:6 recounts that "whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be thrown into the middle of a furnace of blazing fire."

Word family 2 words

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

שָׁעָה shâʻâh · H8159 · to look around in fear, to look at one another in fear · 14×שָׁעָהshâʻâh · H8160

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8160. shaah II. [שַׁ֫עַר] noun [masculine] measure (properly reckoning); — plural…

H8160. shaah
II. [שַׁ֫עַר] noun [masculine] measure (properly reckoning); — plural שְׁעָרִים מֵאָה Gen 26:12 (J) 100 measures, i.e. 100 for one = 100-fold.
III. שׁער (√of following).
שָׁעָה noun feminine brief time, moment (ᵑ7 id., שָֽׁעֲתָא, Late Hebrew שָׁעָה time, hour; Syriac moment, then hour Brock369, but Christian-Palestinian Aramaic moment, hour SchwIdioticon 97 SchulthLex.211; perhaps = Assyrian šattu, duration; Tel Amarna91, 77 še-ti, time, hour (as Canaanism) WklKAT 3. 335; Arabic , portion of time, Ethiopic time, hour, time (Buhl calls Arabic Ethiopic loan-words, but see Wkll.c); √ unknown: possibly Assyrian loan-word (see Wkll.c); DlPr 39 f. conjecture* שׁיע = שָׁעָה look, hence moment = 'Augenblick,' but verb ׳שׁ rather of steadygaze); — moment: usually emphatic בַּהּשַֿׁעֲתָא (read possibly ׳שָֽׁ as ᵑ7 Syriac, M86* f. Buhl14 compare variant reading in Str) in the same moment, forthwith Dan 3:6, Dan 3:15; Dan 4:30; Dan 5:5; absolute חֲדָה שָׁעָה Dan 4:16 for a moment.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Time5 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