Be mad
שָׁגַעStrong’s H7696shaga (sha-ga)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shaga is the Hebrew word usually translated “driven mad”, “behaving like a madman” and “madmen”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.”
Meaning
- To be mad(Pual) · (Hithpael) to show madness
How it's translated
- driven mad 1
- behaving like a madman 1
- madmen 1
- to behave like a madman 1
- the mad 1
- is mad 1
- mad 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Hosea 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 21:14Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
- 1 Samuel 21:15Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
- 2 Kings 9:11Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
- Jeremiah 29:26The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.
- Hosea 9:7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁגַע shaga · be mad
1) to be mad 1a) (Pual) 1a1) to be mad 1a2) to be maddened (participle) 1b) (Hithpael) to show madness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mad” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MAD, adjective
- Disordered in intellect; distracted; furious.
- Proceeding from disordered intellect or expressing it; as a mad demeanor.
- Enraged; furious; as a mad bull.“And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them, even to strange cities” Acts 26:11
- Inflamed to excess with desire; excited with violent and unreasonable passion or appetite; infatuated; followed properly by after.
All definitions and other forms of “mad”
- Distracted with anxiety or trouble; extremely perplexed.“Thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes--” Deuteronomy 28:34
- Infatuated with folly.
- Inflamed with anger; very angry. [This is a common and perhaps the most general sense of the word in America.
- Proceeding from folly or infatuation.
MAD, verb transitive
To make mad furious or angry.
MAD, verb intransitive
To be mad furious or wild.
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.