שָׁעָה
shâʻâh · shaw-aw'
to gaze at or about (properly, for help); by implication, to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed (as looking around in amazement) or bewildered
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to gaze at or about (properly, for help); by implication, to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed (as looking around in amazement) or bewildered
- to gaze at or about (properly, for help)
- by implication, to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed (as looking around in amazement) or bewildered
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: depart, be dim, be dismayed, look (away), regard, have respect, spare, turn.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › to see and know › to reveal, behold
To consume, to destroy that works to see and know that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׁעָה 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
15 occurrences · 15 OT · 0 NT · 14 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- had respect1 · 7%
- he had not respect1 · 7%
- therein; and let them not regard1 · 7%
- they looked1 · 7%
- wilt thou not depart1 · 7%
- turn1 · 7%
- o spare1 · 7%
- and i will have respect1 · 7%
- look1 · 7%
- and he shall not look1 · 7%
- i, look away1 · 7%
- but they look1 · 7%
- shall not be dim1 · 7%
- thou not; for i am with thee: be not dismayed1 · 7%
- that we may be dismayed1 · 7%
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.