Storm
שָׁוָהStrong’s H8663shavah (sha-vah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “crashes of”, “shouting of” and “noises”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.”
Meaning
- (CLBL/BDB) storm
- (TWOT) to set, place
How it's translated
- crashes of 1
- shouting of 1
- noises 1
- shouting 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Isaiah 1
- Zechariah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 36:29Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
- Job 39:7He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
- Isaiah 22:2Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁוָה shavah · storm
1) (CLBL/BDB) storm 2) (TWOT) to set, place
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “storm” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STORM, noun
[G., to disturb. Latin The primary sense of storm is a rushing, raging or violent agitation.[
- A violent wind; a tempest.
- A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter ad take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates and the like.
- Violent civil or political commotion; sedition; insurrection; also, clamor; tumult; disturbance of the public peace.
- Affliction; calamity; distress; adversity.
All definitions and other forms of “storm”
- Violence; vehemence; tumultuous force.
STORM, verb transitive
To assault; to attack and attempt to take by scaling the walls, forcing gates or breaches and the like; as, to storm a fortified town.
STORM, verb intransitive
- To raise a tempest.
- To blow with violence; impersonally; as, it storms.
- To rage; to be in a violent agitation of passion; to fume.
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.