Shaon שָׁאוֹן

Shaon (Hebrew שָׁאוֹן, Strong's H7588) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “roar”. It occurs 18 times in 16 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Shaon, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Psalms

• Psalm 40:2
  He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.
• Psalm 65:7
  Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.
• Psalm 74:23
  Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 5:14
  Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!
• Isaiah 13:4
  The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.
• Isaiah 17:12
  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.
• Isaiah 17:13
  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
• Isaiah 24:8
  The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.
• Isaiah 25:5
  Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
• Isaiah 66:6
  A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompence to his enemies.Hear the uproar from the city; listen to the voice from the temple! It is the voice of the LORD, repaying His enemies what they deserve!

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 25:31
  A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord.The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth because the LORD brings a charge against the nations. He brings judgment on all mankind and puts the wicked to the sword,’” declares the LORD.
• Jeremiah 46:17
  They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.There they will cry out: ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; he has let the appointed time pass him by.’
• Jeremiah 48:45
  They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.
• Jeremiah 51:55
  Because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:For the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.

Hosea

• Hosea 10:14
  Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth–arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.

Amos

• Amos 2:2
  But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:So I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ram’s horn.

Notes

1. 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.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).