To crash
שָׁאָהStrong’s H7582shaah (sha-ah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shaah is the Hebrew word usually translated “make desolate”, “are in an uproar” and “have lain desolate”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.”
Meaning
- Crash, make a din or crash, crash into ruins, be in ruins, be desolated(Qal) to crash into ruins · (Niphal) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- to make desolate 2
- they are in an uproar 2
- they have lain desolate 1
- it will be devastated 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- 2 Kings 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 6:11Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
- Isaiah 17:12Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
- Isaiah 17:13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
- Isaiah 37:26Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁאָה shaah · to crash
1) crash, make a din or crash, crash into ruins, be in ruins, be desolated 1a) (Qal) to crash into ruins 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be ruined 1b2) to crash 1b3) to be left (a desolation) 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to crash 1c2) to cause to be desolated
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crash” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CRASH, verb transitive
To break; to bruise.
All definitions and other forms of “crash”
CRASH, verb intransitive
To make the loud, clattering, multifarious sound of many things falling and breaking at once.
CRASH, noun
The loud mingled sound of many things falling and breaking at once; as the sound of a large tree falling and its branches breaking, or the sound of a falling house.
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.