shaa · moment, hour

What it means

shaa (שָׁעָה) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “moment, hour”.

Moment, a short time (Aramaic): "at that moment", "immediately".

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 brief instant (Aramaic).

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Daniel 3:6

  And whoever does not fall down and bow down at that very moment will be thrown into the midst of the furnace of fire blazing.”

• Daniel 3:15

  Now if you are ready at the moment that you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the zither, the sambuca, the psaltery, and the bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and bow down to the image that I made, good; but if you do not bow down, at that very moment you will be thrown into the midst of the furnace of fire blazing; and who is the Elah who will deliver you from my hands?”

• Daniel 4:19

  Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was appalled for about a moment, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered and said, “Belteshazzar, do not let the dream and its interpretation trouble you.” Belteshazzar answered and said, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you and its interpretation for your adversaries!

• Daniel 4:33

  At that very moment the word was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and from men he was driven away, and grass like oxen he ate, and with the dew of the heavens his body was drenched, until his hair grew like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

• Daniel 5:5

  At that very moment there came out the fingers of a man’s hand and were writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king; and the king was seeing the palm of the hand that was writing.