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# שְׁרֵקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8292

**hissing** — used 2 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

hissing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8292/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁרֵקָה: n.f. hissing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8292/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. (object of derisive) hissing;—always abs. שׁ׳, and always + שַׁמָּה: Je 19:8; 25:9, 18 (+ חָרְבָּה, קְלָלָה), 29:18 (+ אָלָה, חֶרְפָּה), 51:37 Mi 6:16 (+ חֶרְפָּה), 2 Ch 29:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Judges 5:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.16/#tree)

לָ֣מָּה יָשַׁ֗בְתָּ בֵּ֚ין הַֽמִּשְׁפְּתַ֔יִם לִשְׁמֹ֖עַ שְׁרִק֣וֹת עֲדָרִ֑ים לִפְלַגּ֣וֹת רְאוּבֵ֔ן גְּדוֹלִ֖ים חִקְרֵי־לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* why? did.you.sit between the.two saddlebaskets to hear \[the\].whistling of.\[the\].flocks to the.divisions of.Reuben \[were\].great searchings of.heart

*JPS 1917:* Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the flocks? At the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

[Jeremiah 18:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.16/#tree)

לָשׂ֥וּם אַרְצָ֛ם לְשַׁמָּ֖ה שְׁרִיק֣וֹתעוֹלָ֑ם כֹּ֚ל עוֹבֵ֣ר עָלֶ֔יהָ יִשֹּׁ֖ם וְיָנִ֥יד בְּרֹאשֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* to make land their into a.waste hissings of.perpetuity every \[one.who\].passes.by at it he.will.be.appalled and he.will.wag with head his

*JPS 1917:* To make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8292/): 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).