Hebrew verb · H7696
שָׁגַע
shagashaw-gah'
be mad
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâgaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7696is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7696
to rave through insanity
The King James renders it: (be, play the) mad (man).
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
shaga is rendered "be mad". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 28:34You will be driven mad by the sights you see.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
You will be driven mad by the sights you see.
Deuteronomy 28:34מְשֻׁגָּ֑ע
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's seven uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- behaving like a madman1
- driven mad1
- is mad1
- mad1
- madmen1
- the mad1
- to behave like a madman1
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.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- הַמְשֻׁגָּ֥ע1
- לְהִשְׁתַּגֵּ֖עַ1
- מְשֻׁגָּ֑ע1
- מְשֻׁגָּ֖ע1
- מְשֻׁגָּע֙1
- מְשֻׁגָּעִים֙1
- מִשְׁתַּגֵּ֔עַ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular3HVPsmsa
- preposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vtcc
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular1HTd/VPsmsa
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine plural1HVPsmpa
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singular1HVtrmsa
Deuteronomy
one use
You will be driven mad by the sights you see.
- מְשֻׁגָּ֑עmeshuga'verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: driven mad
1 Samuel
three uses
Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you can see that the man is insane! Why have you brought him to me?
- מִשְׁתַּגֵּ֔עַmishtagea'verb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: behaving like a madman
Am I in need of madmen, that you have brought this man to rave in my presence? Must this man come into my house?”
- מְשֻׁגָּעִים֙meshugaimverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: madmen
- לְהִשְׁתַּגֵּ֖עַlehishtagea'preposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to behave like a madman
2 Kings
one use
When Jehu went out to the servants of his master, they asked, “Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you?” “You know his kind and their babble,” he replied.
- הַמְשֻׁגָּ֥עhamshuga'the definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: the mad
Jeremiah
one use
‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in stocks and neck irons.
- מְשֻׁגָּ֖עmeshuga'verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: is mad
Hosea
one use
The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived—let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility.
- מְשֻׁגָּע֙meshuga'verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: mad
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 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.