שְׁאָגָה
sheaga · roaring, groaning
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7581 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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sheaga (שְׁאָגָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “roaring, groaning”.
A roar, like a lion's; also the loud groan of a person in distress.
How to say it
she·a·ga
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
- The lion's loud sound; the groan of one who suffers.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- roaring ×5
- roar ×1
- roarings ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 3:24
For before my bread my sighing comes, and my roarings pour out like water.
- Job 4:10
The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions are broken.
- Psalms 22:1
For the director. On The Doe of the Dawn. A psalm of David. My El, my El, why have you abandoned me? Far from my salvation are the words of my roaring.
- Psalms 32:3
When I kept silent, my bones wore away through my roaring all the day.
- Isaiah 5:29
Its roar is like a lioness; it roars like young lions; it growls and seizes prey and carries it off to safety, and there is no one to rescue.
- Ezekiel 19:7
And he knew his widows, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and all that fills it, at the sound of his roaring.
- Zechariah 11:3
The sound of the wailing of the shepherds, for their splendor has been devastated; the sound of the roaring of young lions, for the thicket of the Jordan has been devastated.