Roar
שָׁאוֹןStrong’s H7588shaon (sha-on)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shaon is the Hebrew word usually translated “uproar of”, “uproar” and “like uproar of”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.”
Meaning
- Roar, din, crash, uproarroar (of water) · uproar (of revellers)
How it's translated
- uproar of 6
- an uproar 3
- like uproar of 2
- roaring 1
- and uproar its 1
- an uproar of 1
- and uproar of 1
- a noise 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 7
- Jeremiah 4
- Psalms 3
- Hosea 1
- Amos 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 65:7Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
- Psalms 74:23Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
- Isaiah 5:14Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
- Isaiah 13:4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁאוֹן shaon · roar
1) roar, din, crash, uproar 1a) roar (of water) 1b) uproar (of revellers)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “roar” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ROAR, verb intransitive
- To cry with a full, loud, continued sound; to bellow, as a beast; as a roaring bull; a roaring lion.
- To cry aloud, as in distress.
- To cry aloud; to bawl; as a child.
- To cause a loud continued sound.
All definitions and other forms of “roar”
- To make a loud noise.
ROAR, noun
- A full loud sound of some continuance; the cry of a beast; as the roar of a lion or bull.
- The loud cry of a child or person in distress.
- Clamor; outcry of joy or mirth; as a roar of laughter. he set the company in a roar
- The loud continued sound of the sea in a storm, or the howling of a tempest.
- Any loud sound of some continuance; as the roar of cannon.
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.