Oar
שַׁ֫יִטStrong’s H7885shayit (sha-yit)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shayit is the Hebrew word usually translated “rowing”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.”
Meaning
- Rowingscourge (fig)
How it's translated
- rowing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שַׁ֫יִט shayit · oar
1) rowing 1a) rowing 1b) scourge (fig)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “oar” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OAR, noun
An instrument for rowing boats, being a piece of timber round or square at one end, and flat at the other. The round end is the handle, and the flat end the blade.
All definitions and other forms of “oar”
OAR, verb intransitive
To row.
OAR, verb transitive
To impel by rowing.
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.