Hissing
שְׁרֵקָהStrong’s H8322shereqah (she-re-qah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shereqah is the Hebrew word usually translated “into a hissing”, “hissing” and “into hissing”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.”
Meaning
- Hissing, whistling
How it's translated
- and into a hissing 4
- into a hissing 1
- and a hissing 1
- into hissing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 5
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Micah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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 25:9Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
- Jeremiah 25:18To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
- Jeremiah 29:18And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
- Jeremiah 51:37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
- Micah 6:16For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁרֵקָה shereqah · hissing
hissing, whistling
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hissing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HISS'ING, participle present
tense Making the noise of serpents.
All definitions and other forms of “hissing”
HISS'ING, noun
A hissing sound; an expression of scorn or contempt.
- The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision.“I will make this city desolate, and a hissing” Jeremiah 19:8
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.