H8322 שְׁרֵקָה (shᵉrêqâh) sher-ay-kaw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

hissing

Strong's Definition

a derision

Derivation: from H8319 (שָׁרַק);

KJV Usage: hissing.

TWOT Reference: 2468a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) hissing, whistling

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

שְׁרֵקָה (she.re.qah) — hissing. hissing, whistling

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

שְׁרֵקָה (H8322)

noun f · שׁרק

Sounds

whistling = action by which humans produce a clear, high-pitched sound made by forcing breath through a small hole between partly closed lips, or between one’s teeth, ► in order to send a signal

JDG 5:16

Sounds

hissing = action by which humans produce a sharp sibilant sound ► as an expression of disapproval and derision

JER 18:16

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

שְׁרֵקָה n.f. (object of derisive) hissing base

Bible Occurrences (8)

29:8

18:16 19:8 25:9 25:18 29:18 51:37

6:16

2 Chronicles 29:8

Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

Jeremiah 18:16

They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

Jeremiah 19:8

I will make this city a desolation and an [object of] scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will summon... all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and [I will send for] My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.

Jeremiah 25:18

to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day — Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth— a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them....

Jeremiah 51:37

Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

Micah 6:16

You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.