Strong's #8173: sha`a` (pronounced shaw-ah')

a primitive root; (in a good acceptation) to look upon (with complacency), i.e. fondle, please or amuse (self); (in a bad one) to look about (in dismay), i.e. stare:--cry (out) (by confusion with 7768), dandle, delight (self), play, shut.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ

shâ‛a‛

1) to stroke, be smeared over, be blinded

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be smeared over, be blinded

1a2) to smear eyes shut

1b) (Hiphil) to besmear (of eyes), smear over eyes

1c) (Hithpalpel) to blind oneself, be blinded

2) to sport, take delight in

2a) (Pilpel) to sport, delight in, take delight in, delight oneself

2b) (Palpal) to be fondled

2c) (Hithpalpel) to delight oneself

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 2435, 2436

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Psalms 94:19: "of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul."
Psalms 119:16: " I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word."
Psalms 119:47: " And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved."
Psalms 119:70: "is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law."
Isaiah 6:10: "fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes,"
Isaiah 11:8: "And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand"
Isaiah 29:9: "Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger,"
Isaiah 29:9: "Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger,"
Isaiah 66:12: "ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees."