Tempest
סַ֫עַרStrong’s H5591saar (sa-ar)
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saar is the Hebrew word usually translated “storm”, “tempest” and “storm of”. It appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.”
Meaning
- Tempest
How it's translated
- a storm 3
- storm 3
- and a tempest 3
- storm of 2
- and a storm 2
- tempests 2
- by the whirlwind 1
- in the whirlwind 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Isaiah 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Ezekiel 3
- 2 Kings 2
- Job 2
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 2:1And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
- 2 Kings 2:11And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
- Job 38:1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
- Job 40:6Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
- Psalms 55:8I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
- Psalms 83:15So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
Hebrew dictionary
סַ֫עַר saar · tempest
tempest Another spelling of se.a.rah (סְעָרָה "tempest" H5591B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tempest” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TEM'PEST, noun
[Latin tempestas; tempus, time, season. The primary sense of tempus, time, is a falling, or that which falls, comes or happens, from some verb which signifies to fall or come suddenly, or rather to drive, to rush. Time is properly a coming, a season, that which presents itself, or is present. The sense of tempest is from the sense of rushing or driving. See Temerity and Temerarious.
- An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence; a storm of extreme violence.
- A violent tumult or commotion; as a popular or political tempest; the tempest of war.
- Perturbation; violent agitation; as a tempest of the
All definitions and other forms of “tempest”
TEM'PEST, verb transitive
To disturb as by a tempest of the passions. [Little used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.