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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7588

שָׁאוֹן

shaonshaw-one'

roar

18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: shâʼôwn

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7588is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 5 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 13
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7588

uproar (as of rushing); by implication, destruction

The King James renders it: [idiom] horrible, noise, pomp, rushing, tumult ([idiom] -uous).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

shaon is rendered "roar". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.

  • Eight of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 40:2He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.
  • The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.

The first use

He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

Psalms 40:2שָׁאוֹן֮

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eight of the word's eighteen uses are in Isaiah.

The other 34 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • uproar of6
  • an uproar3
  • like uproar of2
  • a noise1
  • an uproar of1
  • and uproar its1
  • and uproar of1
  • in uproar1
  • roaring1
  • uproar1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

שָׁאַלshaalto askUses171
שָׁאַרshaarto remainUses133
שָׁאַגshaagto roarUses20
שָׁאַבshaabto drawUses19
שָׁאַףshaaphto long forUses14
שָׁאָהshaahto crashUses6
שָׁאַןshaanto restUses5
שָׁאטshatto despiseUses3
שָׁאָהshaahto gazeUses1
שָׁאוּלִיShauliShauliteUses1
שָׁאַסshaasto spoilUsesnot recorded

The words it stands beside

All 18, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

13 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • שְׁא֥וֹן3
  • שְׁא֣וֹן2
  • שָׁאוֹן֮2
  • שָׁאוֹן֙2
  • בְּשָׁאוֹן֙1
  • וּשְׁא֣וֹן1
  • וּשְׁאוֹנָ֖הּ1
  • כִּשְׁא֛וֹן1
  • כִּשְׁא֞וֹן1
  • שְׁא֞וֹן1
  • שְׁא֖וֹן1
  • שָׁא֔וֹן1

and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)7HNcmsc
  • noun · masculine singular6HNcmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp3fs
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa

Psalms

four uses
  • He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

    Psalms 40:2

    • שָׁאוֹן֮shaonnoun · masculine singulartagged: roaring
  • You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.

    Psalms 65:7

    • שְׁא֣וֹןsheonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: uproar of
    • שְׁא֥וֹןsheonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: uproar of
  • Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.

    Psalms 74:23

    • שְׁא֥וֹןsheonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: uproar of

Isaiah

eight uses
  • Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!

    Isaiah 5:14

    • וּשְׁאוֹנָ֖הּusheonahconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and uproar its
  • Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.

    Isaiah 13:4

    • שְׁא֞וֹןsheonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: an uproar of
  • Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.

    Isaiah 17:12

    • וּשְׁא֣וֹןusheonconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and uproar of
    • כִּשְׁא֛וֹןkishonpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like uproar of
  • The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

    Isaiah 17:13

    • כִּשְׁא֞וֹןkishonpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like uproar of
  • The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.

    Isaiah 24:8

    • שְׁא֣וֹןsheonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: uproar of
  • like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.

    Isaiah 25:5

    • שְׁא֥וֹןsheonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: uproar of
  • Hear the uproar from the city; listen to the voice from the temple! It is the voice of the LORD, repaying His enemies what they deserve!

    Isaiah 66:6

    • שָׁאוֹן֙shaonnoun · masculine singulartagged: an uproar

Jeremiah

four uses
  • The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth because the LORD brings a charge against the nations. He brings judgment on all mankind and puts the wicked to the sword,’” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 25:31

    • שָׁאוֹן֙shaonnoun · masculine singulartagged: an uproar
  • There they will cry out: ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; he has let the appointed time pass him by.’

    Jeremiah 46:17

    • שָׁא֔וֹןshaonnoun · masculine singulartagged: a noise
  • “Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.

    Jeremiah 48:45

    • שָׁאֽוֹן׃shaonnoun · masculine singulartagged: uproar
  • For the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.

    Jeremiah 51:55

    • שְׁא֖וֹןsheonnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: uproar of

Hosea

one use
  • the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.

    Hosea 10:14

    • שָׁאוֹן֮shaonnoun · masculine singulartagged: an uproar

Amos

one use
  • So I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ram’s horn.

    Amos 2:2

    • בְּשָׁאוֹן֙beshaonpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in uproar

The letters

Gematria 357· 1,007 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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