שִׁגָּעוֹןshiggâʻôwn
madness (Deuteronomy 28:28; Zechariah 12:4; 2 Kings 9:20)
Pronunciation: shig-gaw-yone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7697
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 28:28 The Lord will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic.
- 2 Kings 9:20 The watchman exclaimed, “The messenger has met them, but he isn’t returning either! It must be Jehu son of Nimshi, for he’s driving like a madman.”
- Zechariah 12:4 “On that day,” says the Lord, “I will cause every horse to panic and every rider to lose his nerve. I will watch over the people of Judah, but I will blind all the horses of their enemies.
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).