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Strong H81732 sensesשָׁעַע

to delight · to smear

Transliteration
shâ‛a‛
Pronunciation
shaw-ah'

The 2 senses of Strong H8173

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H8173 appears in 8 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. to delightH8173Bto sport, take delight in6 verses · Psalms, Isaiah
  2. to smearH8173Ato be smeared over, be blinded2 verses · Isaiah

General definition

A primitive root; (in a good acceptation) to look upon (with {complacency}) that {is} fondle 6
please or amuse (self); (in a bad one) to look about (in {dismay}) that {is} stare . (cry out is by confusion with H7768.): - cry (out) [by confusion with {H7768]} {dandle} delight ({self}) {play} shut.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • delight4
  • cry1
  • dandle1
  • play1
  • shut1

First verses

  1. Psalms 94:19
    In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
  2. Psalms 119:16
    I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
  3. Psalms 119:47
    And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
  4. Psalms 119:70
    Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
  5. Isaiah 6:10
    Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
  6. Isaiah 11:8
    And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
  7. Isaiah 29:9
    Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
  8. Isaiah 66:12
    For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.