Strong's #8159: sha`ah (pronounced shaw-aw')
a primitive root; to gaze at or about (properly, for help); by implication, to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed (as looking around in amazement) or bewildered:--depart, be dim, be dismayed, look (away), regard, have respect, spare, turn.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׁ
shâ‛âh
1) to look at or to, regard, gaze at or about
1a) (Qal) to gaze at, regard, behold, look about
1b) (Hiphil) to look away, cause gaze to turn away
1c) (Hithpael) to look in dismay, gaze about (in anxiety)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 15 times:
Genesis 4:4: "of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel"
Genesis 4:5: "Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth,"
Exodus 5:9: "upon the men, that they may labor therein; and let them not regard vain words."
2 Samuel 22:42: " They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not."
Job 7:19: "How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down"
Job 14:6: " Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day."
Psalms 39:13: " O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no"
Psalms 119:117: "Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually."
Isaiah 17:7: "At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect"
Isaiah 17:8: "And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect"
Isaiah 22:4: "Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor"
Isaiah 31:1: "horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One"
Isaiah 32:3: "And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken."
Isaiah 41:10: "I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen"
Isaiah 41:23: "yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together."
