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Hebrew

To gaze

שָׁאָהStrong’s H7583

shaah (sha-ah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Shaah is the Hebrew word usually translated “gazing”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.”
Genesis 24:21 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Hithpael)to gaze · gazing (participle)
How it's translated
  • gazing 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 1

1 book in all.

Related words
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    Hebrew dictionary

    שָׁאָה shaah · to gaze

    1) (Hithpael) 1a) to gaze 1b) gazing (participle)

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “gaze” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    GAZE, verb intransitive

    [Gr. to be astonished, and Heb. to see or look, that is, to fix the eye or to reach with the eye.]

      All definitions and other forms of “gaze”

        GAZE, verb transitive

        To view with fixed attention.

          GAZE, noun

          A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder or admiration; a continued look of attention.

          1. The object gazed on; that which causes one to gaze

          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.