sharak · hiss, whistle

What it means

sharak (שָׁרַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hiss, whistle”.

Whistle, hiss: as a sign of astonishment or scorn at a disaster; also to call.

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 make a sharp sound of astonishment or scorn at ruin.
2. To call a people with a whistle so that they gather and come.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• will hiss ×5
• whistle ×3
• they hiss ×2
• hiss ×1
• hisses at him ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×1

• 1 Kings 9:8

  And this house will be high; everyone who passes by it will be appalled and will hiss, and they will say, ‘Why has YHWH done thus to this land and to this house?’

• Job 27:23

  It claps its palms at him, and hisses at him from its place.

• Isaiah 5:26

  And he will raise a banner for the nations from afar, and whistle for it from the end of the earth; and look, swiftly, speedily it comes.

• Isaiah 7:18

  And it will happen on that day that YHWH will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

• 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 49:17

  And Edom will become a horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss over all its wounds.

• Jeremiah 50:13

  Because of the wrath of YHWH she will not be inhabited, but she will become a desolation, all of her; everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified and will hiss over all her wounds.

• Lamentations 2:15

  They clap their hands at you, all who pass by on the road; they hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that they called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth’?”

• Lamentations 2:16

  They have opened their mouth against you, all your enemies; they hiss and grind their teeth; they say, “We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day that we hoped for; we have found it, we have seen it.”

• Ezekiel 27:36

  The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; dreads you have become, and you will be no more forever.’”

• Zephaniah 2:15

  This is the exultant city who sat in security, who said in her heart, “I, and no one else.” How she has become a horror, a resting place for animals! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and shake his hand.

• Zechariah 10:8

  I will whistle for them and gather them, for I have ransomed them; and they will multiply as they multiplied before.