STRONGS NUMBER H8319


Word Summary
sharaq: to hiss, whistle, pipe
Original Word: שָׁרַק
Transliteration: sharaq
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-rak')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to hiss, whistle, pipe
Meaning: to be shrill, to whistle, hiss
Strong's Concordance
hiss

A primitive root; properly, to be shrill, i.e. To whistle or hiss (as a call or in scorn) -- hiss.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8319. sharaq

שָׁרַקverb hiss, perhaps also whistle, pipe (Late Hebrew id., hiss (dubious), Aramaic שְׁרֵיקid. ᵑ7Leviticus 2:15-16, id.; — from ׳שׁ‎ comes Greek σῦριγξ according to LagAbh GGW xxvi. 38 LewyFremdw.165); —

Qal Perfect3masculine singular consecutive ׳וְשׁIsaiah 5:26, etc.; Imperfect3masculine singular יִשְׁרֹק7:18 + (Job 27:23 read יִשְׁרְקוּ‎ Me Bi Siegf Bu); 1 singular אֶשְׁרְקָהZechariah 10:8; — hiss, as signal, ל‎ person, figurative, ׳י‎ subject: Isaiah 5:26; 7:18; Zechariah 10:1; in derision, עַל‎ civitat., etc. (often + שָׁמֵםbe astounded), Jeremiah 19:8; 49:17; 50:13; Lamentations 2:15 (+ ראֹשׁ הֵנִיעַ‎), Ezekiel 27:36; absolute Zephaniah 2:15; Lamentations 2:16; 1 Kings 9:8 (+ שֵׁן חָרַק‎); עַל‎ person Job 27:23 (with מִן‎ local).

שׁרק‎ (שְׁרֵיק ᵑ7‎, Syriac , Biblical Hebrew שָׁרַקhiss, whistle (onomatopoetic).