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title: שְׁרֵקָה — hissing · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁרֵקָה (8292), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: hissing. BDB 1906: n.f. hissing. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁרֵקָה

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«שְׁרֵקָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hissing** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 8292 · **BDB:** שְׁרֵקָה

### Glosses

\[the\].whistling (1); hissings (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hissing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8292/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. hissing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8292/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. (object of derisive) hissing;—always abs. שׁ׳, and always + שַׁמָּה: Je 19:8; 25:9, 18 (+ חָרְבָּה, קְלָלָה), 29:18 (+ אָלָה, חֶרְפָּה), 51:37 Mi 6:16 (+ חֶרְפָּה), 2 Ch 29:8.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׁרֵקָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8292/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Judges 5:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.16/)

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לָ֣מָּה יָשַׁ֗בְתָּ בֵּ֚ין הַֽמִּשְׁפְּתַ֔יִם לִשְׁמֹ֖עַ שְׁרִק֣וֹת עֲדָרִ֑ים לִפְלַגּ֣וֹת רְאוּבֵ֔ן גְּדוֹלִ֖ים חִקְרֵי־לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* why? did.you.sit between the.two saddlebaskets to hear \[the\].whistling of.\[the\].flocks to the.divisions of.Reuben \[were\].great searchings of.heart

*JPS 1917:* Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the flocks? At the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

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[Jeremiah 18:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.18.16/)

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לָשׂ֥וּם אַרְצָ֛ם לְשַׁמָּ֖ה שְׁרִיק֣וֹתעוֹלָ֑ם כֹּ֚ל עוֹבֵ֣ר עָלֶ֔יהָ יִשֹּׁ֖ם וְיָנִ֥יד בְּרֹאשֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* to make land their into a.waste hissings of.perpetuity every \[one.who\].passes.by at it he.will.be.appalled and he.will.wag with head his

*JPS 1917:* To make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

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