VEYMONTTHE STUDY OF SCRIPTURE
Menu

HISTORICAL LINGUISTIC REFERENCE

H8159 · שָׁעָה

shâʻâh

Primary-Source Attested

Strong’s definition

to gaze at or about (properly, for help); by implication, to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed (as looking around in amazement) or bewildered

KJV gloss list in the source

depart, be dim, be dismayed, look (away), regard, have respect, spare, turn.

Source pronunciation notation: shaw-aw'

Derivation recorded by Strong

a primitive root;

Explore the English glosses

These links search English words in the KJV. They are not a claim that every result translates this lemma.

Contextual morphology & manuscript evidence

Every indexed source occurrence of H8159 →

The passage laboratory provides separately attributed Hebrew and Greek morphology and occurrence lists. Source-text boundaries and alternatives are displayed explicitly. The entry must not be used as an automatic verdict against the KJV.