Saar סָעַר
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| סָעַר | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | saar |
| Strong's number | H5590 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Gloss | to rage |
| Occurrences | 7 in 7 verses |
| Most frequent in | Jonah (2) |
Saar (Hebrew סָעַר, Strong's H5590) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to rage”. It occurs 7 times in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) to storm, rage
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to storm
1a2) stormy, growing storm (participle)
1b) (Niphal) to be enraged
1c) (Piel) to storm away
1d) (Pual) to be driven by storm
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to storm
1a2) stormy, growing storm (participle)
1b) (Niphal) to be enraged
1c) (Piel) to storm away
1d) (Pual) to be driven by storm
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | whirlwind (3), tempestuous (2), troubled (1), tempest (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | became enraged (1), lashed by storms (1), blown (1), worse (1), was raging (1), stormed out (1), i scattered them with a whirlwind (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Saar, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
2 Kings
- 2 Kings 6:11Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?For this reason the king of Aram became enraged and called his servants to demand of them, “Tell me, which one of us is on the side of the king of Israel?”
Isaiah
- Isaiah 54:11O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.
Hosea
- Hosea 13:3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
Jonah
- Jonah 1:11Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.Now the sea was growing worse and worse, so they said to Jonah, “What must we do to you to calm this sea for us?”
- Jonah 1:13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.
Habakkuk
- Habakkuk 3:14Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.
Zechariah
- Zechariah 7:14But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).