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# שָׁאַג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7580

**roar** — used 20 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

roar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7580/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁאַג: vb. roar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7580/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. roar (NH id.; Arabic ثَأَجَ low, bleat, Frey);— Pf. 3 ms. וְשׁ׳ Is 5:29 Kt consec. (\>Qr יִשְׁאַג), שָׁאָ֖ג Am 3:8, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יִשְׁאַג Am 3:4 +, etc.; Inf. abs. שָׁאֹג Je 25:30; Pt. שֹׁאֵג Ju 14:5 ψ 22:14, שׁוֹאֵג Ez 22:25, שֹׁאֲגִים Zp 3:3 ψ 104:21;— roar, of lion Ju 14:5 (c. לִקְרָאתוֹ), Am 3:4, 8 ψ 104:21 (c. ל of prey), fig. of invaders and foes Je 2:15 (c. עַל pers.) ψ 22:14, cf. 74:4, sim. Is 5:29; Je 51:38; fig. of rapacious rulers Zp 3:3; Ez 22:25 (read נְשִׂיאֶיהָ for נְבִיאֶיהָ 𝔊 and mod.); of י׳ (like lion) calling scattered Isr. Ho 11:10(×2) (on text of v. see Now); of י׳ roaring in thunder Je 25:30a = Am 1:2 = Jo 3:16, also Je 25:30 (שָׁאֹג יִשְׁאַג, sq. עַל־נָוֵהוּ); cf. יִשְׁאַג־קוֹל Jb 37:4 (‖ יַרְעֵם). of human cry in distress ψ 38:9 (c. מִן causat.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 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: he will roar (6); roaring (3); I roar (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 22:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.14/#tree)

פָּצ֣וּ עָלַ֣י פִּיהֶ֑ם אַ֝רְיֵ֗ה טֹרֵ֥ף וְשֹׁאֵֽג׃

*Word for word:* they.have.opened on me mouth their a.lion tearing and roaring

*JPS 1917:* They open wide their mouth against me, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

[Jeremiah 51:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.38/#tree)

יַחְדָּ֖ו כַּכְּפִרִ֣ים יִשְׁאָ֑גוּ נָעֲר֖וּ כְּגוֹרֵ֥י אֲרָיֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* together like.(the) young lions they.roar they.growl like cubs of.lions

*JPS 1917:* They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7580.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7580/): 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).