שָׁגַעshâgaʻ

be mad

Pronunciation: shaw-gah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7696

Meanings

Pu`al: thou shalt be maddened, madmen (Deuteronomy 28:34; Hosea 9:7; Jeremiah 29:26)

Hithpa`el: shew madness (1 Samuel 21:15; 1 Samuel 21:16)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 7 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 28:34 You will go mad because of all the tragedy you see around you.
  • 1 Samuel 21:14 Finally, King Achish said to his men, “Must you bring me a madman?
  • 1 Samuel 21:15 We already have enough of them around here! Why should I let someone like this be my guest?”
  • 2 Kings 9:11 Jehu went back to his fellow officers, and one of them asked him, “What did that madman want? Is everything all right?” “You know how a man like that babbles on,” Jehu replied.
  • Jeremiah 29:26 “The Lord has appointed you to replace Jehoiada as the priest in charge of the house of the Lord. You are responsible to put into stocks and neck irons any crazy man who claims to be a prophet.
  • Hosea 9:7 The time of Israel’s punishment has come; the day of payment is here. Soon Israel will know this all too well. Because of your great sin and hostility, you say, “The prophets are crazy and the inspired men are fools!”
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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).