Piping
שְׁרִיקָהStrong’s H8292sheruqah (she-ru-qah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sheruqah is the Hebrew word usually translated “whistling of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.”
Meaning
- Piping, whistling, hissing
How it's translated
- whistling of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁרִיקָה sheruqah · piping
piping, whistling, hissing
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “piping” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PI'PING, participle present
tense Playing on a pipe.
- adjective Weak; feeble; sickly. [Vulgar and not in use in America.]
- Very hot; boiling; from the sound of boiling fluids. [Used in vulgar language.]
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.