saar · storm, be agitated

What it means

saar (סָעַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “storm, be agitated”.

Be stirred violently, like the sea or the wind in a storm. It is also said of a person greatly troubled within: in 2 Kings 6:11 "the heart of the king of Aram was stormy." From the same root comes "storm."

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 rage like a gale; sweep away by whirlwind; be troubled inside.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• stormy ×3
• I scattered them with a whirlwind ×1
• storm-tossed ×1
• swept by the storm ×1
• they stormed ×1

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×1
• Isaiah×1
• Hosea×1
• Jonah×2
• Habakkuk×1
• Zechariah×1

• 2 Kings 6:11

  The heart of the king of Aram was stormy over this matter, and he called to his servants and said to them, “Will you not tell me who of those of ours is for the king of Israel?”

• Isaiah 54:11

  “Afflicted one, storm-tossed, not comforted: look, I am setting your stones on antimony, and I will lay your foundations on sapphires.

• Hosea 13:3

  Therefore they will be like a morning cloud, and like the dew that goes away early, like chaff that is swept by the storm from the threshing floor, and like smoke from a window.

• Jonah 1:11

  And they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may calm down and leave us?” For the sea was growing more and more stormy.

• Jonah 1:13

  Then the men rowed hard to get back to the dry land, but they could not, for the sea was growing more and more stormy against them.

• Habakkuk 3:14

  You pierced with his rods the head of his warriors; they stormed to scatter me; their exultation was as to devour the poor in the hiding place.

• Zechariah 7:14

  And I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known; and the land was left desolate behind them, with no one passing through or returning; and they made the pleasant land a horror.