shaa · lay waste

What it means

shaa (שָׁאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lay waste”.

Become ruins, be laid waste (Isaiah 6:11); in the form found in 2 Kings 19:25, "reduce to ruins." From another root of the same form: roar, crash like waters (Isaiah 17:12).

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. Become ruins; leave as rubble.
2. Crash like waters.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• reducing ×2
• resound ×2
• lie waste ×1
• lies waste ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×1
• Isaiah×5

• 2 Kings 19:25

  Have you not heard? From afar I made it, from days of old I formed it; now I have brought it about, and it has been for reducing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

• Isaiah 6:11

  And I said, “How long, Adonai?” And he said, “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without a human being, and the ground lies waste, a desolation;

• Isaiah 17:12

  Woe! The tumult of many peoples, like the roaring of the seas they roar; and the uproar of the nations, like the uproar of mighty waters they resound.

• Isaiah 17:13

  The nations, like the uproar of many waters, resound; but he rebukes it, and it flees far away, and is chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like whirling dust before the storm wind.

• Isaiah 37:26

  Have you not heard? From afar I made it, from days of old I formed it; now I have brought it about, and it has been for reducing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

And 1 more times.