סַעַר
çaʻar · sah'-ar
a hurricane
Lexicon
Derivation: or (feminine) סְעָרָה; from H5590 (סָעַר);
a hurricane
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: storm(-y), tempest, whirlwind.
Letters
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to support and uphold › to see and know › the head, the highest
To support and uphold that works to see and know of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of סַעַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
24 occurrences · 24 OT · 0 NT · 20 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- whirlwind3 · 13%
- by a whirlwind2 · 8%
- out of the whirlwind2 · 8%
- and tempest2 · 8%
- and the whirlwind2 · 8%
- tempest2 · 8%
- them with thy tempest1 · 4%
- the stormy1 · 4%
- the storm1 · 4%
- stormy1 · 4%
- behold, a whirlwind1 · 4%
- behold, the whirlwind1 · 4%
- and, behold, a whirlwind1 · 4%
- and a stormy1 · 4%
- it with a stormy1 · 4%
- with a tempest1 · 4%
- with whirlwinds1 · 4%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.