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# שְׁרֵקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8322

**hissing** — used 7 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/1513/8322/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁרֵקָה: n.f. hissing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8322/#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, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a hissing (6); hissing (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 51:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.37/#tree)

וְהָיְתָה֩ בָבֶ֨ל ׀ לְגַלִּ֧ים ׀ מְעוֹן־תַּנִּ֛ים שַׁמָּ֥ה וּשְׁרֵקָ֖ה מֵאֵ֥ין יוֹשֵֽׁב׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.become Babylon (into).heaps of.stones a.habitation of.jackals a.horror and a.hissing from not an.inhabitant

*JPS 1917:* And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

[Jeremiah 19:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.19.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.19.8/#tree)

וְשַׂמְתִּי֙ אֶת־הָעִ֣יר הַזֹּ֔את לְשַׁמָּ֖ה וְלִשְׁרֵקָ֑ה כֹּ֚ל עֹבֵ֣ר עָלֶ֔יהָ יִשֹּׁ֥ם וְיִשְׁרֹ֖ק עַל־כָּל־מַכֹּתֶֽהָ׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.make (et) the city (the) this into a.waste and into a.hissing every \[one.who\].passes.by at it he.will.be.appalled and he.will.hiss on all wounds its

*JPS 1917:* and I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8322.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8322/): 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).