H8173: שָׁעַע
shâʻaʻ · pronounced shaw-ah' · “to smear”
Definition
(in a good acceptation) to look upon (with complacency), i.e. fondle, please or amuse (self); (in a bad one) to look about (in dismay), i.e. stare
KJV translates it as: cry (out) (by confusion with H7768 (שָׁוַע)), dandle, delight (self), play, shut.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be smeared over, be blinded
1a2) to smear eyes shut
1b) (Hiphil) to besmear (of eyes), smear over eyes
1c) (Hithpalpel) to blind oneself, be blinded
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H8173 is translated
- they delighted ×1
- i will delight myself ×1
- i may delight myself ×1
- i delight ×1
- seal over ×1
- he will play ×1
- blind yourselves ×1
- be blind ×1
- you will be fondled ×1
Bible verses with H8173 (shâʻaʻ)
Shâʻaʻ appears in 8 verses.
- Psalms 94:19
In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
- Psalms 119:16
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
- Psalms 119:47
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
- Psalms 119:70
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
- Isaiah 6:10
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
- Isaiah 11:8
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
- Isaiah 29:9
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
- Isaiah 66:12
For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.