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title: שְׁרֵקָה — hissing · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁרֵקָה (8322), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 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:** 7 times · **Key:** 8322 · **BDB:** שְׁרֵקָה

### Glosses

a.hissing (6); hissing (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hissing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8322/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. hissing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8322/#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, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 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/1513/8322/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 51:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.37/)

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וְהָיְתָה֩ בָבֶ֨ל ׀ לְגַלִּ֧ים ׀ מְעוֹן־תַּנִּ֛ים שַׁמָּ֥ה וּשְׁרֵקָ֖ה מֵאֵ֥ין יוֹשֵֽׁב׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.become Babylon (into).heaps of.stones a.habitation of.jackals a.horror and a.hissing from not an.inhabitant

*JPS 1917:* And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

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[Jeremiah 19:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.19.8/)

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וְשַׂמְתִּי֙ אֶת־הָעִ֣יר הַזֹּ֔את לְשַׁמָּ֖ה וְלִשְׁרֵקָ֑ה כֹּ֚ל עֹבֵ֣ר עָלֶ֔יהָ יִשֹּׁ֥ם וְיִשְׁרֹ֖ק עַל־כָּל־מַכֹּתֶֽהָ׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.make (et) the city (the) this into a.waste and into a.hissing every \[one.who\].passes.by at it he.will.be.appalled and he.will.hiss on all wounds its

*JPS 1917:* and I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof;

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