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# סְעָרָה

Biblical Hebrew

**tempest** — used 16 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

tempest [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5e2_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סְעָרָה: n.f. tempest, storm-wind [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5e2_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. tempest, storm-wind;—abs. סְעָרָה Is 29:6 + (so also 2 K 2:1, 11 Ginsb; Baer בַּסֳּעָרָה); cstr. סַעֲרַת Je 23:19; 30:23; pl. סְעָרוֹת Ez 13:11, 13; cstr. סַעֲרוֹת Zc 9:14;—4, as instr. of י׳’s wrath, Is 29:6 (+ סוּפָה), cf.40:24; 41:16, also רוּחַ סְעָרוֹת Ez 13:11, 13 (against nation under fig. of wall); storm-wind of Elijah’s translation 2 K 2:1, 11; of theophany Ez 1:4 (רִוּחַ סְעָרָה), Jb 38:1; 40:6, and סַעֲרוֹת תֵּימָן Zc 9:14; סַעֲרַת י׳ as fig. of י׳’s wrath Je 23:19; 30:23; of ordinary tempests only in late ψψ: רוּחַ סְעָרָה 107:25; 148:8, ס׳ opp. דְּמָמָה 107:29.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a tempest (4); of storm (2); of tempests (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 107:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.29/#tree)

יָקֵ֣ם סְ֭עָרָה לִדְמָמָ֑ה וַ֝יֶּחֱשׁ֗וּ גַּלֵּיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* he.raised \[the\].storm into a.whisper and they.were.still waves their

*JPS 1917:* He made the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof were still.

[Job 40:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.6/#tree)

וַיַּֽעַן־יְהוָ֣ה אֶת־אִ֭יּוֹב מִ֥ן ׀ סְעָרָ֗ה וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Yahweh (et) Job from a.tempest and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5e2_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5e2_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).