שָׁתָה
shata · foundation
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8356 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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shata (שָׁתָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “foundation”.
Base: what a house rests on; figuratively, what upholds the life of a people.
How to say it
sha·ta
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
- What holds a people up, like the base of a house.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- foundations ×1
- pillars ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 11:3
If the foundations are torn down, what has the righteous done?
- Isaiah 19:10
And its pillars will be crushed; all who work for wages will be grieved in soul.