shaa · delight; take delight

What it means

shaa (שָׁעַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “delight; take delight”.

To delight, to take pleasure in something; in the active form, to delight or gladden someone.

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 take joy; be cuddled like a child.
2. To lose sight, or take another's sight.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• blind ×3
• I will delight myself ×2
• delight ×2
• will play ×1
• you will be dandled ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×5

• Psalms 94:19

  In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me, your consolations delight my soul.

• Psalms 119:16

  In your statutes I will delight myself; I will not forget your word.

• Psalms 119:47

  And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved.

• Psalms 119:70

  Their heart is gross like fat; I delight in your instruction.

• Isaiah 6:10

  Make fat the heart of this people, and make heavy its ears, and blind its eyes, lest it see with its eyes, and hear with its ears, and its heart understand, and it turn back and be healed.”

• Isaiah 11:8

  And the nursing child will play over the hole of the viper, and over the den of the cobra the weaned child will stretch out his hand.

• Isaiah 29:9

  Linger and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; they sway, but not with intoxicating drink.

• Isaiah 66:12

  For thus says YHWH: “Look, I will extend to her peace like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing torrent; and you will suck; at the side you will be carried, and on her knees you will be dandled.

And 1 more times.