Shâʻaʻ — H8173

Definition

verb

(in a good acceptation) to look upon (with complacency), i.e. fondle, please or amuse (self); (in a bad one) to look about (in dismay), i.e. stare

1. to stroke, be smeared over, be blinded
1. (Qal)
1. to be smeared over, be blinded
2. to smear eyes shut
2. (Hiphil) to besmear (of eyes), smear over eyes
3. (Hithpalpel) to blind oneself, be blinded
2. to sport, take delight in
1. (Pilpel) to sport, delight in, take delight in, delight oneself
2. (Palpal) to be fondled
3. (Hithpalpel) to delight oneself

Usually translated as

cry, delight, play, shut, dandle

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• agapáō (G25)
• kammýō (G2576)
• meletáō (G3191)
• parakaléō (G3870)

Occurrences

Shâʻaʻ occurs 9 times in 8 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Psalms (4), Isaiah (4)

• Psalms 94:19 — In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight (יְֽשַׁעַשְׁע֥וּ) my soul.
• Psalms 119:16 — I will delight myself (אֶֽשְׁתַּעֲשָׁ֑ע) in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
• Psalms 119:47 — And I will delight myself (וְאֶשְׁתַּֽעֲשַׁ֥ע) in thy commandments, which I have loved.
• Psalms 119:70 — Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight (שִֽׁעֲשָֽׁעְתִּי) in thy law.
• Isaiah 6:10 — Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut (הָשַׁ֑ע) their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
• Isaiah 11:8 — And the sucking child shall play (וְשִֽׁעֲשַׁ֥ע) on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
• Isaiah 29:9 — Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out (הִשְׁתַּֽעַשְׁע֖וּ), and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
• Isaiah 29:9 — Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry (וָשֹׁ֑עוּ): they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
• Isaiah 66:12 — For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled (תְּשָׁעֳשָֽׁעוּ) upon her knees.