Roaring
שְׁאָגָהStrong’s H7581sheagah (she-a-gah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sheagah is the Hebrew word usually translated “roaring of”, “cries of distress my” and “cry of distress my”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.”
Meaning
- Roaringof lion, the wicked, distress cry
How it's translated
- roaring of 2
- cries of distress my 1
- cry of distress my 1
- in cry of distress my 1
- roaring 1
- roaring its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Zechariah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 3:24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
- Job 4:10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
- Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
- Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
- Isaiah 5:29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
- Ezekiel 19:7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁאָגָה sheagah · roaring
1) roaring 1a) of lion, the wicked, distress cry
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “roaring” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ROARING, participle present
tense Crying like a bull or lion; uttering a deep loud sound.
All definitions and other forms of “roaring”
ROARING, noun
The cry of a lion or other beast; outcry of distress,; loud continued sound of the billows of the sea or of a tempest.
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.