Hebrew verb · H8319
שָׁרַק
sharaqshaw-rak'
to whistle
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâraq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8319is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8319
properly, to be shrill, i.e. to whistle or hiss (as a call or in scorn)
The King James renders it: hiss.
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
sharaq is rendered "to whistle". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Three of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 9:8And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
1 Kings 9:8וְשָׁרָ֑ק
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's twelve uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he may hiss3
- they have hissed3
- and he will hiss1
- and he will whistle1
- he will hiss1
- he will whistle1
- I will whistle1
- so he may hiss1
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 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- וְיִשְׁרֹ֖ק3
- שָֽׁרְקוּ֙2
- אֶשְׁרְקָ֥ה1
- וְיִשְׁרֹ֥ק1
- וְשָׁ֥רַק1
- וְשָׁרָ֑ק1
- יִשְׁרֹ֤ק1
- יִשְׁרֹ֖ק1
- שָׁרְק֖וּ1
The grammar of each form
- HC/Vqu3ms4HC/Vqu3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural3HVqp3cp
- Hc/Vqq3ms2Hc/Vqq3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singular1HVqc1cs
1 Kings
one use
And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
- וְשָׁרָ֑קvesharakHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will hiss
Job
one use
It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.
- וְיִשְׁרֹ֥קveyishrokHC/Vqu3mstagged: so he may hiss
Isaiah
two uses
He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!
- וְשָׁ֥רַקvesharakHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will whistle
On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
- יִשְׁרֹ֤קyishrokverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will whistle
Jeremiah
three uses
I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
- וְיִשְׁרֹ֖קveyishrokHC/Vqu3mstagged: and he may hiss
“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
- וְיִשְׁרֹ֖קveyishrokHC/Vqu3mstagged: and he may hiss
Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.
- וְיִשְׁרֹ֖קveyishrokHC/Vqu3mstagged: and he may hiss
Lamentations
two uses
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
- שָֽׁרְקוּ֙sharekuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have hissed
All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
- שָֽׁרְקוּ֙sharekuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have hissed
Ezekiel
one use
Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
- שָׁרְק֖וּsharekuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have hissed
Zephaniah
one use
This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
- יִשְׁרֹ֖קyishrokverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will hiss
Zechariah
one use
I will whistle for them to gather, for I have redeemed them; and they will be as numerous as they once were.
- אֶשְׁרְקָ֥הʾeshrekahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will whistle
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.