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# שִׁגָּעוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7697

**madness** — used 3 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

madness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7697/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁגָּעוֹן: n.m. madness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7697/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. madness;—הִכָּה בְּשׁ׳ Dt 28:28 smite with madness, fig. of wild and helpless panic (‖ עִוָּרוֹן, תִּמְהוֹן לֵבָב), Zc 12:4 (‖ תִּמָּהוֹן); בְּשׁ׳ 2 K 9:20 (hyperb.) madly.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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: madness (3).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 28:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.28/#tree)

יַכְּכָ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה בְּשִׁגָּע֖וֹן וּבְעִוָּר֑וֹן וּבְתִמְה֖וֹן לֵבָֽב׃

*Word for word:* he will.strike.you Yahweh with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of.heart

*JPS 1917:* The LORD will smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.

[2 Kings 9:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.9.20/#tree)

וַיַּגֵּ֤ד הַצֹּפֶה֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר בָּ֥א עַד־אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם וְלֹֽא־שָׁ֑ב וְהַמִּנְהָ֗ג כְּמִנְהַג֙ יֵה֣וּא בֶן־נִמְשִׁ֔י כִּ֥י בְשִׁגָּע֖וֹן יִנְהָֽג׃

*Word for word:* and he.reported the watchman (cmp) he.came to to them and not he.has.turned.back and the driving \[is\].like the.driving of.Jehu the.son of.Nimshi (dm) with madness he.drives

*JPS 1917:* And the watchman told, saying: 'He came even unto them, and cometh not back; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7697/): 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).