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# שְׁאָגָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7581

**roaring** — 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

roaring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7581/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁאָגָה: n.f. roaring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7581/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. roaring;— like lion, abs. שׁ׳ Is 5:29 (of invaders); of lion, cstr. שַׁאֲגַת Zc 11:3; Jb 4:10 (fig. of wicked), sf. קוֹל שַׁאֲגָתוֹ Ez 19:7 (fig. of conquering king). human cry in distress, שַׁאֲגָתִי ψ 32:3, דִּבְרֵי שׁ׳ 22:2, שַׁאֲגֹתָ֑י Jb 3:24.

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 (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: \[the\] roaring (1); its roaring (1); my cry (1).

## In the verses

[Job 4:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.10/#tree)

שַׁאֲגַ֣ת אַ֭רְיֵה וְק֣וֹל שָׁ֑חַל וְשִׁנֵּ֖י כְפִירִ֣ים נִתָּֽעוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].roaring of.a.lion and.\[the\] sound of.a.lion and.\[the\] teeth of.young.lions they.are.broken.out

*JPS 1917:* The lion roareth, and the fierce lion howleth — yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

[Psalms 32:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.32.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.32.3/#tree)

כִּֽי־הֶ֭חֱרַשְׁתִּי בָּל֣וּ עֲצָמָ֑י בְּ֝שַׁאֲגָתִ֗י כָּל־הַיּֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) I.kept.silent they.became.worn.out bones my in my.cry of.distress all the day

*JPS 1917:* When I kept silence, my bones wore away through my groaning all the day long.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7581.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7581/): 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).