shaga · be mad

What it means

shaga (שָׁגַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be mad”.

Have lost one's mind.

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. To lose one's reason, act without sense.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• mad ×3
• madman ×3
• madmen ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Kings×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×1

• Deuteronomy 28:34

  And you will be driven mad by the sight of your eyes that you will see.

• 1 Samuel 21:14

  Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see a man behaving like a madman. Why do you bring him to me?

• 1 Samuel 21:15

  Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this one to behave like a madman before me? Should this one come into my house?”

• 2 Kings 9:11

  Jehu went out to the servants of his master, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this madman come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and his talk.”

• Jeremiah 29:26

  ‘YHWH has made you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, so that there may be overseers in the house of YHWH for every man who is mad and makes himself a prophet, that you may put him in the stocks and in the collar.

• Hosea 9:7

  The days of punishment have come, the days of retribution have come; Israel will know it. The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad, because of the abundance of your iniquity, and the hostility is great.

And 1 more times.