Moment
שָׁעָהStrong’s H8160shaah (sha-ah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shaah is the Aramaic word usually translated “moment the” and “about a moment”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.”
Meaning
- Brief time, moment
How it's translated
- moment the 4
- about a moment 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:15In contextNow if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
- Daniel 4:19In contextThen Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.
- Daniel 4:33In contextThe same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
- Daniel 5:5In contextIn the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Aramaic dictionary
שָׁעָה shaah · moment
brief time, moment
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “moment” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MO'MENT, noun
[Latin momentum. This word is contracted from motamentum, or some other word, the radical verb of which signified to move, rush, drive or fall suddenly, which sense gives that of force. The sense of an instant of time is from falling or rushing, which accords well with that of meet.]
- The most minute and indivisible part of time; an instant.“In a moment in the twinkling of an eye” 1 Corinthians 15:52
- Force; impulsive power.
- Importance in influence or effect; consequence; weight or value.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.