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title: שָׁאָה — make a din · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁאָה (7582), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: make a din. BDB 1906: vb. make din crash, crash into ruins. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁאָה

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«שָׁאָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **make a din** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 7582 · **BDB:** שָׁאָה

### Glosses

make.desolate (2); it.will.be.devastated (1); they.have.lain.desolate (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

make a din [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7582/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. make din crash, crash into ruins [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7582/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. make a din or crash, crash into ruins (perhaps akin to שׁוֹאָה (√ שׁוא) storm, devastation; \> Aramaic ܫܗܳܐ be deserted, שַׁהֲוָוא, שַׁהֲוָתָא desert);— Pf. 3 pl. שָׁאוּ Is 6:11 until cities have crashed into ruins; + perhaps Na 1:5 (p. 671a). Impf. 3 fs. תִּשָּׁאֶה שְׁמָמָה Is 6:11, usually, and the ground be ruined into a desolation, but 𝔊 Lo Du Marti תִּשָּׁאֵר be left a desol.; 3 mpl. יִשָּׁא֑וּן Is 17:12 they are in uproar (of nations, ‖ יֶהֱמָיוּן), v 13 (but del. as doublet Du CheHpt. Marti). Inf. cstr. לְהַשְׁאוֹת Is 37:26, = לַהְשׁוֹת 2 K 19:25 (Ges§ 23 f Köi. 570, who follow van d. H. in giving לְהַשְׁאוֹת as Qr, but v. Baer Gi), to cause … cities to crash into ruined heaps.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁאָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7582/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 6:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.6.11/)

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וָאֹמַ֕ר עַד־מָתַ֖י אֲדֹנָ֑י וַיֹּ֡אמֶר עַ֣ד אֲשֶׁר֩ אִם־שָׁא֨וּ עָרִ֜ים מֵאֵ֣ין יוֹשֵׁ֗ב וּבָתִּים֙ מֵאֵ֣ין אָדָ֔ם וְהָאֲדָמָ֖ה תִּשָּׁאֶ֥ה שְׁמָמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and I.said until when? Lord my and he.said until that (if) they.have.lain.desolate cities from not an.inhabitant and houses from not anyone and the ground it.will.be.devastated a.desolation

*JPS 1917:* Then said I: 'Lord, how long?' And He answered: 'Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,

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[Isaiah 37:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.26/)

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הֲלֽוֹא־שָׁמַ֤עְתָּ לְמֵֽרָחוֹק֙ אוֹתָ֣הּ עָשִׂ֔יתִי מִ֥ימֵי קֶ֖דֶם וִיצַרְתִּ֑יהָ עַתָּ֣ה הֲבֵאתִ֔יהָ וּתְהִ֗י לְהַשְׁא֛וֹת גַּלִּ֥ים נִצִּ֖ים עָרִ֥ים בְּצֻרֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* ? not have.you.heard (to).from distant \[time\] it I.appointed from days of.antiquity and I planned.it now I have.brought.it and you.are \[about\].to make.desolate heaps ruined cities fortified

*JPS 1917:* Hast thou not heard? Long ago I made it, in ancient times I fashioned it; now have I brought it to pass, yea, it is done; that fortified cities should be laid waste into ruinous heaps.

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