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שְׁרֵקָה

shereka · hissing

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8322 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

shereka (שְׁרֵקָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hissing”.

The whistle of scorn or astonishment of one who passes by a ruin; hence, "an object of scorn."

How to say it

she·re·ka

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. The sound of scorn at a ruin; what causes it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

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Where it appears

  • 2 Chronicles 29:8

    So the wrath of YHWH was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he gave them over to terror, to horror, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • Jeremiah 18:16

    to make their land a horror, a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and shake his head.

  • Jeremiah 19:8

    And I will make this city a horror and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss over all its wounds.

  • Jeremiah 25:9

    look, I am sending and will take all the clans of the north, declares YHWH, and I am sending to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; and I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror and a hissing and eternal ruins.

  • Jeremiah 25:18

    Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, and its kings, its princes, to make them a ruin, a horror, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day;

  • Jeremiah 29:18

    And I will pursue them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse and a horror and a hissing and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

  • Jeremiah 51:37

    And Babylon will become heaps, a lair of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.

  • Micah 6:16

    And the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the work of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, so that I may make you a horror, and her inhabitants a hissing; and the reproach of my people you will bear.”