To whistle
שָׁרַקStrong’s H8319sharaq (sha-raq)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sharaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “may hiss”, “have hissed” and “hiss”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.”
Meaning
- To hiss, whistle, pipe(Qal) to hiss (as a signal)
How it's translated
- and he may hiss 3
- they have hissed 3
- and he will hiss 1
- so he may hiss 1
- and he will whistle 1
- he will whistle 1
- he will hiss 1
- i will whistle 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- Isaiah 2
- Lamentations 2
- 1 Kings 1
- Job 1
- Ezekiel 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 9:8And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
- Job 27:23Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
- Isaiah 5:26And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
- Isaiah 7:18And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
- Jeremiah 19:8And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
- Jeremiah 49:17Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁרַק sharaq · to whistle
1) to hiss, whistle, pipe 1a) (Qal) to hiss (as a signal)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “whistle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHISTLE, verb intransitive
hwisl. [Latin, a whistle; allied to whisper.]
- To utter a kind of musical sound, by pressing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips.
- To make a sound with a small wind instrument.
- To sound shrill, or like a pipe.
All definitions and other forms of “whistle”
WHISTLE, verb transitive
- To form, utter or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or air.
- To call by a whistle; as, he whistled back his dog.
WHISTLE, noun
[Latin]
- A small wind instrument.
- The sound made by a small wind instrument.
- Sound made by pressing the breath through a small orifice of the lips.
- The mouth; the organ of whistling. [Vulgar.]
- A small pipe, used by a boatswain to summon the sailors to their duty; the boatswains call.
- The shrill sound of winds passing among trees or through crevices, etc.
- A call, such as sportsmen use to their dogs.
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.