Hebrew noun (Aramaic, feminine) · H8160
שָׁעָה
shaahshaw-aw'
moment
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâʻâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8160is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8160
properly, a look, i.e. a moment
The King James renders it: hour.
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
shaah is rendered "moment". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Five of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 3:6And whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
And whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.”
Daniel 3:6שַׁעֲתָ֣א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's five uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- moment the4
- about a moment1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁעַן | shaan | to lean | Uses22 |
| שָׁעָה | shaah | to gaze | Uses15 |
| שָׁעַע | shaa | to smear | Uses9 |
| שָׁעַר | shaar | to calculate | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- כְּשָׁעָ֣ה1
- שַׁעֲתָ֣א1
- שַׁעֲתָ֗א1
- שַׁעֲתָ֣ה1
- שַׁעֲתָ֗ה1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)4ANcfsd/Ta
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1AR/Ncfsa
Daniel
five uses
And whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.”
- שַׁעֲתָ֣אshaata'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: moment the
Now, if you are ready, as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the statue I have made. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”
- שַׁעֲתָ֣הshaatah'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: moment the
For a time, Daniel, who was also known as Belteshazzar, was perplexed, and his thoughts alarmed him. So the king said, “Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its interpretation alarm you.” “My lord,” replied Belteshazzar, “may the dream apply to those who hate you, and its interpretation to your enemies!
- כְּשָׁעָ֣הkeshaahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: about a moment
At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.
- שַׁעֲתָ֗אshaata'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: moment the
At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
- שַׁעֲתָ֗הshaatah'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: moment the
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.