shot · whip, scourge

What it means

shot (שׁוֹט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “whip, scourge”.

A lash for striking animals or people. It is also used as an image of a punishment.

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 strap for striking, or a sweeping punishment.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• whip ×5
• whips ×4
• lash ×1
• scourge ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Job×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Nahum×1

• 1 Kings 12:11

  And now, my father loaded on you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”

• 1 Kings 12:14

  and he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made heavy your yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

• 2 Chronicles 10:11

  And now, my father loaded on you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I with scorpions.’”

• 2 Chronicles 10:14

  and he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “I will make heavy your yoke, and I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I with scorpions.”

• Job 5:21

  From the lash of the tongue you will be hidden, and you will not fear devastation when it comes.

• Job 9:23

  If a scourge kills suddenly, he mocks at the trial of the innocent.

• Proverbs 26:3

  A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of the senseless.

• Isaiah 10:26

  And YHWH Tsevaot will rouse against him a whip, as the blow on Midian at the rock of Oreb; and his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it in the manner of Egypt.

• Isaiah 28:15

  Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have made an agreement; the sweeping whip, when it passes through, will not come to us, for we have made a lie our refuge, and in falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

• Isaiah 28:18

  And your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; the sweeping whip, when it passes through, you will be trampled by it.

• Nahum 3:2

  The sound of the whip, and the sound of the rumble of the wheel, and galloping horse, and bounding chariot;