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# שָׁאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7583

**gaze** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

gaze [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7583/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁאָה²: vb. gaze [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7583/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. gaze (appar. ‖ form of שָׁעָה, q.v.);—Pt. ms. הָאִישׁ מִשְׁתָּאֵה לָהּ Gn 24:21 (J) the man was gazing at her (Ges§ 130 a).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] gazing (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 24:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.21/#tree)

וְהָאִ֥ישׁ מִשְׁתָּאֵ֖ה לָ֑הּ מַחֲרִ֕ישׁ לָדַ֗עַת הַֽהִצְלִ֧יחַ יְהוָ֛ה דַּרְכּ֖וֹ אִם־לֹֽא׃

*Word for word:* and the man \[was\].gazing to her \[being\].silent to know had he.made.successful? Yahweh journey his or? not

*JPS 1917:* And the man looked stedfastly on her; holding his peace, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7583.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7583/): 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).