שָׁרַק
shâraq · H8319 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences
Meanings
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to hiss
Action by which humans produce a sharp sibilant sound, as an expression of disapproval and derision
Examples1 Kings 9:8 “And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by it will be appalled and hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and this house?’
Job 27:23 “People will clap their hands at him, And will whistle at him from their places.
Jeremiah 19:8 “I will also turn this city into an object of horror and hissing; everyone who passes by it will be appalled and hiss because of all its disasters.
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to whistle
Action by which humans produce a clear, high-pitched sound made by forcing breath through a small hole between partly closed lips, or between one’s teeth, in order to send a signal; only used in an anthropomorphic sense for God
ExamplesIsaiah 5:26 He will also lift up a flag to the distant nation, And whistle for it from the ends of the earth; And behold, it will come with speed swiftly.
Isaiah 7:18 On that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is in the remotest part of the canals of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Zechariah 10:8 “I will whistle for them and gather them together, For I have redeemed them; And they will be as numerous as they were before.
How it’s used In 2 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
12 occurrences in 6 groups
- עָבַרto pass 5
- Not stated: they 2
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
- סָחַרmerchant, to trade 1
- Not stated: I 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
7 occurrences in 7 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ מַכָּהstroke 3
- מִןfrom+ מָקוֹםplace 1
- מִןfrom+ קָצֶהend, edge, border 1
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ ךְyou 1
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ וֹhim 1
- לto/for+ וֹhim 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.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
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- This verb denotes hissing or whistling, as in 1 Kings 9:8's warning that everyone who passes by the ruined house will be appalled and hiss.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8319. sharaq שָׁרַק verb hiss, perhaps also whistle, pipe (Late Hebrew id., hiss…
שָׁרַק verb hiss, perhaps also whistle, pipe (Late Hebrew id., hiss (dubious), Aramaic שְׁרֵיק id. ᵑ7 Lev 2:15-16, id.; — from ׳שׁ comes Greek σῦριγξ according to LagAbh GGW xxvi. 38 LewyFremdw.165); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular consecutive ׳וְשׁ Isa 5:26, etc.; Imperfect3masculine singular יִשְׁרֹק Isa 7:18 + (Job 27:23 read יִשְׁרְקוּ Me Bi Siegf Bu); 1 singular אֶשְׁרְקָה Zec 10:8; — hiss, as signal, ל person, figurative, ׳י subject: Isa 5:26; Isa 7:18; Zec 10:1; in derision, עַל civitat., etc. (often + שָׁמֵם be astounded), Jer 19:8; Jer 49:17; Jer 50:13; Lam 2:15 (+ ראֹשׁ הֵנִיעַ), Eze 27:36; absolute Zep 2:15; Lam 2:16; 1Ki 9:8 (+ שֵׁן חָרַק); עַל person Job 27:23 (with מִן local).
שׁרק (שְׁרֵיק ᵑ7, Syriac , Biblical Hebrew שָׁרַק hiss, whistle (onomatopoetic).
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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