Lexical Summary sheth: perhaps devastation Original Word: שֵׁאתTransliteration: sheth Phonetic Spelling: (shayth) Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: perhaps devastation Meaning: perhaps devastation Strong's Concordance desolation From sha'ah; devastation -- desolation. see HEBREW sha'ah Brown-Driver-Briggs H7612. sheth שֵׁאת noun feminine doubtful word; perhaps (for *שֶׁאֶת) din of battle (= שָׁאוֺן); Thes and others devastation, compare שְׁאִיָּה; either meaning suits ׳הַשּׁ Lamentations 3:47 ("" הַשָּׁ֑בֶר; but Wecompare Hex. 2, 351, from II. שׁוא, desolation); contracted (according to Thes and most) שֵׁת, in שֵׁת בְּנֵי Numbers 24:17 (J) sons of (battle-)din (warriors, = שָׁאוֺןבְּנֵי in "" Jeremiah 48:45); Vrss take שֵׁת here as proper name; Gray proposes שֵׂת = שְׂאֵת, pride, or reading as Jeremiah compare Wecomp. Hex.351. |
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