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# שַׂעַר

Biblical Hebrew

**storm** — 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

storm [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b7_5c2_5e2_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׂ֫עַר²: storm [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b7_5c2_5e2_5b7_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] storm (= סַ֫עַר);—only cstr. שׂ׳ קָ֑טֶב Is 28:2 a storm of destruction (in sim.; ‖ זֶרֶם בָּרָד).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (20 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (16 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a tempest (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 28:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.2/#tree)

הִנֵּ֨ה חָזָ֤ק וְאַמִּץ֙ לַֽאדֹנָ֔י כְּזֶ֥רֶם בָּרָ֖ד שַׂ֣עַר קָ֑טֶב כְּ֠זֶרֶם מַ֣יִם כַּבִּירִ֥ים שֹׁטְפִ֛ים הִנִּ֥יחַ לָאָ֖רֶץ בְּיָֽד׃

*Word for word:* there! a.mighty.\[one\] and a.strong.\[one\] \[belongs\].to \[the\] Lord like a.storm of.hail a.tempest of.destruction like a.storm of.waters mighty overflowing he.will.thrust.\[it\].down to the ground with a.hand

*JPS 1917:* Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, as a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction, as a storm of mighty waters overflowing, that casteth down to the earth with violence.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b7_5c2_5e2_5b7_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b7_5c2_5e2_5b7_5e8/): 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).