Shâthan — H8366

Definition

verb

(causatively) to make water, i.e. urinate

1. (Hiphil) to urinate
1. one who urinates (used as a designation of a male)

Usually translated as

piss

Origin

a primitive root

Occurrences

Shâthan occurs 6 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Samuel (2), 1 Kings (3), 2 Kings (1)

• 1 Samuel 25:22 — So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth (מַשְׁתִּ֥ין) against the wall.
• 1 Samuel 25:34 — For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth (מַשְׁתִּ֥ין) against the wall.
• 1 Kings 14:10 — Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth (מַשְׁתִּ֣ין) against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
• 1 Kings 16:11 — And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth (מַשְׁתִּ֣ין) against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.
• 1 Kings 21:21 — Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth (מַשְׁתִּ֣ין) against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
• 2 Kings 9:8 — For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth (מַשְׁתִּ֣ין) against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel: