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# סָעַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5590

**storm** — used 7 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

storm [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5590/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָעַר: vb. storm, rage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5590/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. storm, rage (Ecclus. סער Hiph. 47:17 move tempestuously; סְעָרָה storm-wind 43:17; 48:9; NH Pi. stir up, blow, סְעָרָה storm-wind; = II. שָׂעַר, but relation obscure; Assyrian šâru, wind, favours originality of שׂ׳, but this only late in Heb., and for ס׳ Frä 189 cp. Arabic سَعَرَ kindle fire, excite, inflame, be vehemently hungry and thirsty, be mad, insane, etc. Lane 1363);— Impf. 3 mpl. fig., יִסְעֲרוּ Hb 3:14 they \[my foes\] storm along to scatter me; Pt. act. סֹעֵר Jon 1:11 the sea was growing more and more stormy, so v 13 (+ עֲלֵיהֶם); f. סֹעֲרָה Is 54:11 storm-tossed (fig. of Jerusalem). Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּסָּעֵר 2 K 6:11 and the heart of the king … was enraged because of (עַל־) this thing. Impf. 1 s. sf. וְאֵסָֽעֲרֵם עַל־ Zc 7:14 (on form v. Ges§§ 23 h, 52 n) and storm them away (hurl them by a storm-wind) upon the nations. Impf. 3 ms. כְּמֹץ יְסֹעֵר Ho 13:3 shall be like chaff (which) is storm-driven from a threshing-floor.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: storming (2); I (1); \[which\] it is storm-driven (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 54:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.54.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.54.11/#tree)

עֲנִיָּ֥ה סֹעֲרָ֖ה לֹ֣א נֻחָ֑מָה הִנֵּ֨ה אָנֹכִ֜י מַרְבִּ֤יץ בַּפּוּךְ֙ אֲבָנַ֔יִךְ וִיסַדְתִּ֖יךְ בַּסַּפִּירִֽים׃

*Word for word:* O.afflicted.\[one\] \[which\].it.is.storm-tossed \[which\].not it.has.been.comforted here! I \[am\].about.to.set in (the) antimony stones your and I will.refound.you with (the) sapphires

*JPS 1917:* O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

[Jonah 1:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.1.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.1.13/#tree)

וַיַּחְתְּר֣וּ הָאֲנָשִׁ֗ים לְהָשִׁ֛יב אֶל־הַיַּבָּשָׁ֖ה וְלֹ֣א יָכֹ֑לוּ כִּ֣י הַיָּ֔ם הוֹלֵ֥ךְ וְסֹעֵ֖ר עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.rowed the men to bring.back to the.dry land and not they.were.able (dm) the sea \[was\].going and storming on them

*JPS 1917:* Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not; for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5590.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5590/): 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).