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title: שָׁאָה — gaze · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁאָה (7583), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: gaze. BDB 1906: vb. gaze. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁאָה

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«שָׁאָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **gaze** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7583 · **BDB:** שָׁאָה²

### Glosses

\[was\].gazing (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

gaze [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7583/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. gaze [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7583/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. gaze (appar. ‖ form of שָׁעָה, q.v.);—Pt. ms. הָאִישׁ מִשְׁתָּאֵה לָהּ Gn 24:21 (J) the man was gazing at her (Ges§ 130 a).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 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/1513/7583/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 24:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.21/)

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וְהָאִ֥ישׁ מִשְׁתָּאֵ֖ה לָ֑הּ מַחֲרִ֕ישׁ לָדַ֗עַת הַֽהִצְלִ֧יחַ יְהוָ֛ה דַּרְכּ֖וֹ אִם־לֹֽא׃

*Word for word:* and the man \[was\].gazing to her \[being\].silent to know had he.made.successful? Yahweh journey his or? not

*JPS 1917:* And the man looked stedfastly on her; holding his peace, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.

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