saar · storm, whirlwind

What it means

saar (סַעַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “storm, whirlwind”.

A whirlwind, a tempest: a very strong wind that swirls and sweeps along.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A violent wind, often a picture of God's judgment.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• storm ×10
• tempest ×6
• whirlwind ×4
• storms ×2
• stormy ×1
• whirlwinds ×1

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×2
• Job×2
• Psalms×5
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×3
• Amos×1
• Jonah×2
• Zechariah×1

• 2 Kings 2:1

  And it happened, when YHWH was about to take up Elijah in the whirlwind to the heavens, that Elijah and Elisha were going from Gilgal.

• 2 Kings 2:11

  And it happened, as they were walking along and talking, that, look, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them, and Elijah went up in the whirlwind to the heavens.

• Job 38:1

  And YHWH answered Job from the whirlwind and said:

• Job 40:6

  And YHWH answered Job from the whirlwind and said:

• Psalms 55:8

  I would hurry to get myself to safety from the rushing wind, from the tempest.”

• Psalms 83:15

  so pursue them with your tempest, and with your storm dismay them.

• Psalms 107:25

  And he spoke and raised up a wind of storm, and it lifted high its waves.

• Psalms 107:29

  He made the storm a calm, and their waves were hushed.

• Psalms 148:8

  fire and hail, snow and smoke, stormy wind doing his word,

• Isaiah 29:6

  From YHWH Tsevaot she will be visited with thunder and with earthquake and a great noise, whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a devouring fire.

• Isaiah 40:24

  Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely has their trunk taken root in the earth, when he also blows on them, and they wither, and the storm like stubble carries them off.

• Isaiah 41:16

  You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them off, and the storm will scatter them; and you will rejoice in YHWH; in the Holy One of Israel you will glory.

• Jeremiah 23:19

  Look, the storm of YHWH, fury, has gone out, and a whirling tempest; on the head of the wicked it will whirl.

• Jeremiah 25:32

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: “Look, evil is going out from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirred up from the far reaches of the earth.”

• Jeremiah 30:23

  Look, the storm of YHWH, fury, has gone out, a rushing storm; on the head of the wicked it will whirl.

• Ezekiel 1:4

  And I looked, and look, a storm wind coming from the north, a great cloud and a fire enfolding itself, and brightness around it, and in its midst something like the gleam of shining metal, in the midst of the fire.

• Ezekiel 13:11

  say to those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be a torrential rain, and you, hailstones, will fall, and a wind of storms will burst it open.

• Ezekiel 13:13

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: I will make burst a wind of storms in my fury, and a torrential rain will come in my anger, and hailstones in fury for total destruction.

• Amos 1:14

  And I will kindle fire on the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour her citadels, with a war cry on the day of battle, with a tempest on the day of the whirlwind.

• Jonah 1:4

  But YHWH hurled a great wind on the sea, and there was a great storm on the sea, and the ship was about to break up.

• Jonah 1:12

  He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea, and the sea will calm down and leave you; for I know that because of me this great storm has come on you.”

• Zechariah 9:14

  And YHWH will appear over them, and his arrow will go out like the lightning; and Adonai YHWH will blow the horn, and will go in the whirlwinds of the south.

And 2 more times.