Shaah means “be desolate” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7582 שָׁאָה (sha'ah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. sha'ah (shaw-aw') v. 1. to rush 2. (by implication) to desolate It has 5 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include lay, desolate, rushing, and rush. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
sha'ah (shaw-aw') v. 1. to rush 2. (by implication) to desolate [a primitive root] KJV: be desolate, (make a) rush(-ing), (lay) waste.
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to crash
Usage: 1) crash, make a din or crash, crash into ruins, be in ruins, be desolated 1a) (Qal) to crash into ruins 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be ruined 1b2) to crash 1b3) to be left (a desolation) 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to crash 1c2) to cause to be desolated
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sha'ah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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5 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
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!
First 5 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7582.
Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
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!
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.
Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7582, grouped by book.
Shaah (Strong's H7582) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "be desolate". sha'ah (shaw-aw') v. 1. to rush 2. (by implication) to desolate
This page currently indexes 5 linked usages for Strong's H7582 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7582 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lay, desolate, rushing, and rush. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.