To smear
שָׁעַעStrong’s H8173shaa (sha-a)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shaa is the Hebrew word usually translated “delighted”, “delight myself” and “may delight myself”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.”
Meaning
- To be smeared over, be blinded(Qal) · (Hiphil) to besmear (of eyes), smear over eyes · (Hithpalpel) to blind oneself, be blinded
- To sport, take delight in(Pilpel) to sport, delight in, take delight in, delight oneself · (Palpal) to be fondled · (Hithpalpel) to delight oneself
How it's translated
- they delighted 1
- i will delight myself 1
- and i may delight myself 1
- i delight 1
- seal over 1
- and he will play 1
- blind yourselves 1
- and be blind 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 4
- Isaiah 4
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 119:16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
- Psalms 119:47And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
- Psalms 119:70Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
- Isaiah 6:10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
- Isaiah 11:8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
- Isaiah 29:9Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁעַע shaa · to smear
1) to be smeared over, be blinded 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be smeared over, be blinded 1a2) to smear eyes shut 1b) (Hiphil) to besmear (of eyes), smear over eyes 1c) (Hithpalpel) to blind oneself, be blinded
שָׁעַע shaa · to delight
1) to sport, take delight in 1a) (Pilpel) to sport, delight in, take delight in, delight oneself 1b) (Palpal) to be fondled 1c) (Hithpalpel) to delight oneself
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “smear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SMEAR, verb transitive
- To overspread with any thing unctuous, viscous or adhesive; to besmear; to daub; as, to smear any thing with oil, butter, pitch, etc.
- To soil; to contaminate; to pollute; as smeared with infamy.
All definitions and other forms of “smear”
SMEAR, noun
A fat oily substance; ointment. [Little used.]
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.