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
- שַׁאֲוָהshaʼăvâh · H7584a tempest (as rushing)
- שָׁאוֹןshâʼôwn · H7588uproar (as of rushing); by implication, destruction
- שְׁאִיָּהshᵉʼîyâh · H7591desolation
- שֵׁאתshêʼth · H7612devastation
- שֶׂהseh · H7716a member of a flock, i.e. a sheep or goat
- שׁוּתֶלַחShûwthelach · H7803Shuthelach, the name of two Israelites
- שֵׁתshêth · H8351tumult
- תְּוַהּtᵉvahh · H8429to amaze, i.e. (reflex. by implication) take alarm
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.
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).