Çâʻar — H5590

Definition

verb

to rush upon; by implication, to toss (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative)

1. to storm, rage
1. (Qal)
1. to storm
2. stormy, growing storm (participle)
2. (Niphal) to be enraged
3. (Piel) to storm away
4. (Pual) to be driven by storm

Usually translated as

whirlwind, tempestuous, tempest, troubled, be, be sore, come out as a

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• ekbállō (G1544)
• exaírō (G1808)
• exegeírō (G1825)
• exístēmi (G1839)
• katapínō (G2666)
• kataphérō (G2702)
• likmáō (G3039)
• seíō (G4579)
• synágō (G4863)
• phríssō (G5425)

Occurrences

Çâʻar occurs 7 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Kings (1), Isaiah (1), Hosea (1), Jonah (2), Habakkuk (1), Zechariah (1)

• 2 Kings 6:11 — Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled (וַיִּסָּעֵר֙) for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?
• Isaiah 54:11 — O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest (סֹעֲרָ֖ה), and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
• Hosea 13:3 — Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind (יְסֹעֵ֣ר) out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
• Jonah 1:11 — Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous (וְסֹעֵֽר).
• Jonah 1:13 — Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous (וְסֹעֵ֖ר) against them.
• Habakkuk 3:14 — Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind (יִסְעֲר֖וּ) to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
• Zechariah 7:14 — But I scattered them with a whirlwind (וְאֵ֣סָעֲרֵ֗ם) among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.