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Strong's #8175: sa`ar (pronounced saw-ar')

a primitive root; to storm; by implication, to shiver, i.e. fear:--be (horribly) afraid, fear, hurl as a storm, be tempestuous, come like (take away as with) a whirlwind.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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śâ‛ar

1) to storm, shiver, dread, bristle (with horror), be very afraid

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to bristle (with horror)

1a2) to dread

2) to storm away, sweep away, whirl away

2a) (Qal)

2a1) to sweep away

2a2) to storm away (of God' s action against the wicked) (figuratively)

2b) (Niphal) to be stormy, be tempestuous (exceedingly)

2c) (Piel) to whirl away, be stormed away

2d) (Hithpael) to storm against, come as a storm

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 2274d, 2275, 2276



Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

Deuteronomy 32:17: "gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not."
Job 27:21: "The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place."
Psalms 50:3: "shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about"
Psalms 58:9: "your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath."
Jeremiah 2:12: "O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD."
Ezekiel 27:35: "shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance."
Ezekiel 32:10: "Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for"
Daniel 11:40: "at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many"









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