שָׁאָהshâʼâh

make a din or crash, crash into ruins

Pronunciation: shaw-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7582

Meanings

Qal: have crashed (Isaiah 6:11; Nahum 1:5)

Niph`al: be ruined, are in uproar, be left a desolation (Isaiah 6:11; Isaiah 17:12; Isaiah 17:13)

Hiph`il: to cause, to crash (Isaiah 37:26; 2 Kings 19:25)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Kings 19:25 “But have you not heard? I decided this long ago. Long ago I planned it, and now I am making it happen. I planned for you to crush fortified cities into heaps of rubble.
  • Isaiah 6:11 Then I said, “Lord, how long will this go on?” And he replied, “Until their towns are empty, their houses are deserted, and the whole country is a wasteland;
  • Isaiah 17:12 Listen! The armies of many nations roar like the roaring of the sea. Hear the thunder of the mighty forces as they rush forward like thundering waves.
  • Isaiah 17:13 But though they thunder like breakers on a beach, God will silence them, and they will run away. They will flee like chaff scattered by the wind, like a tumbleweed whirling before a storm.
  • Isaiah 37:26 “But have you not heard? I decided this long ago. Long ago I planned it, and now I am making it happen. I planned for you to crush fortified cities into heaps of rubble.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).