Shâʼôwn — H7588

Definition

masculine noun

uproar (as of rushing); by implication, destruction

1. roar, din, crash, uproar
1. roar (of water)
2. uproar (of revellers)

Usually translated as

noise, rushing, tumult, tumultuous, horrible, pomp

Origin

from H7582

• Derived from Shâʼâh (H7582)

Greek equivalents

• apṓleia (G684)
• ēchos (G2279)
• kataphérō (G2702)
• kraugḗ (G2906)
• talaipōría (G5004)
• hyperēphanía (G5243)

Occurrences

Shâʼôwn occurs 18 times in 16 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Psalms (3), Isaiah (7), Jeremiah (4), Hosea (1), Amos (1)

• Psalms 40:2 — He brought me up also out of an horrible (שָׁאוֹן֮) pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
• Psalms 65:7 — Which stilleth the noise (שְׁא֣וֹן) of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
• Psalms 65:7 — Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise (שְׁא֥וֹן) of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
• Psalms 74:23 — Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult (שְׁא֥וֹן) of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
• Isaiah 5:14 — Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp (וּשְׁאוֹנָ֖הּ), and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
• Isaiah 13:4 — The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous (שְׁא֞וֹן) noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
• Isaiah 17:12 — Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing (וּשְׁא֣וֹן) of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
• 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 like the rushing (כִּשְׁא֛וֹן) of mighty waters!
• Isaiah 17:13 — The nations shall rush like the rushing (כִּשְׁא֞וֹן) 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 24:8 — The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise (שְׁא֣וֹן) of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
• Isaiah 25:5 — Thou shalt bring down the noise (שְׁא֥וֹן) of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
• Isaiah 66:6 — A voice of noise (שָׁאוֹן֙) from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
• Jeremiah 25:31 — A noise (שָׁאוֹן֙) shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
• Jeremiah 46:17 — They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise (שָׁא֔וֹן); he hath passed the time appointed.
• Jeremiah 48:45 — They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous (שָׁאֽוֹן) ones.
• Jeremiah 51:55 — Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise (שְׁא֖וֹן) of their voice is uttered:
• Hosea 10:14 — Therefore shall a tumult (שָׁאוֹן֮) arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
• Amos 2:2 — But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult (בְּשָׁאוֹן֙), with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet: