Occurrences
Shᵉrêqâh occurs 6 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Chronicles (1), Jeremiah (4), Micah (1)
- 2 Chronicles 29:8 — Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing (וְלִשְׁרֵקָ֔ה), as ye see with your eyes.
- Jeremiah 19:8 — And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing (וְלִשְׁרֵקָ֑ה); every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
- Jeremiah 25:9 — Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing (וְלִשְׁרֵקָ֔ה), and perpetual desolations.
- Jeremiah 29:18 — And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing (וְלִשְׁרֵקָ֣ה), and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
- Jeremiah 51:37 — And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing (וּשְׁרֵקָ֖ה), without an inhabitant.
- Micah 6:16 — For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing (לִשְׁרֵקָ֔ה): therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.