Shᵉrûwqâh — H8292

Definition

feminine noun

a whistling (in scorn); by analogy, a piping

1. piping, whistling, hissing

Usually translated as

hissing, bleating

Origin

or (by permutation) shᵉrîyqâh; feminine passive participle of H8319

• Shâraq (H8319)

Occurrences

Shᵉrûwqâh occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Judges (1), Jeremiah (1)

• Judges 5:16 — Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings (שְׁרִק֣וֹת) of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
• Jeremiah 18:16 — To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing (שְׁרִיק֣וֹת); every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.