To gaze
שָׁגַחStrong’s H7688shagach (sha-gach)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shagach is the Hebrew word usually translated “looks”, “gazing” and “stare”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.”
Meaning
- (Hiphil) to gaze, stare
How it's translated
- he looks 1
- gazing 1
- they will stare 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Song of Solomon 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Song of Solomon 2:9My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
- Isaiah 14:16They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁגַח shagach · to gaze
(Hiphil) to gaze, stare
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.
- 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.