Shâʼâh — H7582

Definition

verb

to rush; by implication, to desolate

1. crash, make a din or crash, crash into ruins, be in ruins, be desolated
1. (Qal) to crash into ruins
2. (Niphal)
1. to be ruined
2. to crash
3. to be left (a desolation)
3. (Hiphil)
1. to cause to crash
2. to cause to be desolated

Usually translated as

waste, be desolate, rush, rushing

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• ēchéō (G2278)
• kataleípō (G2641)

Occurrences

Shâʼâh occurs 6 times in 5 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Kings (1), Isaiah (4)

• 2 Kings 19:25 — Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste (לַהְשׁ֛וֹת) fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
• Isaiah 6:11 — Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted (שָׁא֨וּ) without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
• Isaiah 6:11 — Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate (תִּשָּׁאֶ֥ה),
• Isaiah 17:12 — Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing (יִשָּׁאֽוּן) like the rushing of mighty waters!
• Isaiah 17:13 — The nations shall rush (יִשָּׁא֔וּן) like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
• Isaiah 37:26 — Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste (לְהַשְׁא֛וֹת) defenced cities into ruinous heaps.