Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7834
שַׁחַק
shachaqshakh'-ak
cloud
21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7834is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7834
a powder (as beaten small); by analogy, a thin vapor; by extension, the firmament
The King James renders it: cloud, small dust, heaven, sky.
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
shachaq is rendered "cloud". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 33:26“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
Deuteronomy 33:26שְׁחָקִֽים׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- clouds13
- and clouds2
- in the cloud2
- in the clouds2
- and like dust of1
- to clouds1
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 21, 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
- שְׁחָקִֽים׃5
- שְׁחָקִ֣ים3
- שְׁחָקִ֥ים2
- שְׁחָקִ֑ים2
- בַ֭שַּׁחַק1
- בַּ֝שַּׁ֗חַק1
- בַּשְּׁחָקִ֑ים1
- בַּשְּׁחָקִֽים׃1
- וּכְשַׁ֥חַק1
- וּ֝שְׁחָקִ֗ים1
- וּשְׁחָקִ֖ים1
- לִשְׁחָקִ֑ים1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural13HNcmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural2HC/Ncmpa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural2HRd/Ncmpa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
Deuteronomy
one use
“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
- שְׁחָקִֽים׃shechakimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
2 Samuel
one use
He made darkness a canopy around Him, a gathering of water and thick clouds.
- שְׁחָקִֽים׃shechakimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
Job
five uses
Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
- שְׁ֝חָקִ֗יםshechakimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.
- שְׁחָקִ֑יםshechakimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?
- לִשְׁחָקִ֑יםlishchakimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: to clouds
Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
- בַּשְּׁחָקִ֑יםbashechakimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: in the clouds
Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
- שְׁחָקִ֣יםshechakimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
Psalms
nine uses
He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
- שְׁחָקִֽים׃shechakimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
- שְׁחָקִֽים׃shechakimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.
- שְׁחָקִ֥יםshechakimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
Ascribe the power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose strength is in the skies.
- בַּשְּׁחָקִֽים׃bashechakimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: in the clouds
The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.
- שְׁחָקִ֑יםshechakimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
- שְׁחָקִ֣יםshechakimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?
- בַ֭שַּׁחַקvashachakpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the cloud
like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah
- בַּ֝שַּׁ֗חַקbashachakpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the cloud
For Your loving devotion extends beyond the heavens, and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
- שְׁחָקִ֥יםshechakimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
Proverbs
two uses
By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.
- וּ֝שְׁחָקִ֗יםushechakimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and clouds
when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,
- שְׁחָקִ֣יםshechakimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
Isaiah
two uses
Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
- וּכְשַׁ֥חַקukheshachakconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and like dust of
Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.
- וּשְׁחָקִ֖יםushechakimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and clouds
Jeremiah
one use
“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
- שְׁחָקִֽים׃shechakimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
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.