Lexicon shaah: a brief time, moment Original Word: שָׁעָהPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: shaah Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-aw') Short Definition: immediately NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin(Aramaic) from a root corresponding to shaahDefinitiona brief time, moment NASB Translationimmediately (3), suddenly (1), while (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs II. [ שַׁ֫עַר] noun [masculine] measure (properly reckoning); — plural מֵאָה שְׁעָרִים Genesis 26:12 (J) 100 measures, i.e. 100 for one = 100-fold. III. שׁער (√of following). שָׁעָה noun feminine brief time, moment (ᵑ7 id., שָֽׁעֲתָא, Late Hebrew שָׁעָה time, hour; Syriac  moment, then hour Brock369, but Christian-Palestinian Aramaic  moment, hour SchwIdioticon 97 SchulthLex.211; perhaps = Assyrian šattu, duration; Tel Amarna91, 77 še-ti, time, hour (as Canaanism) WklKAT 3. 335; Arabic  ,  portion of time, Ethiopic  time,  hour, time (Buhl calls Arabic Ethiopic loan-words, but see Wkll.c); √ unknown: possibly Assyrian loan-word (see Wkll.c); DlPr 39 f. conjecture* שׁיע = שָׁעָה look, hence moment = 'Augenblick,' but verb ׳שׁ rather of steadygaze); — moment: usually emphatic בַּהּשַֿׁעֲתָא (read possibly ׳שָֽׁ as ᵑ7 Syriac, M86* f. Buhl14 compare variant reading in Str) in the same moment, forthwith Daniel 3:6,15; Daniel 4:30; Daniel 5:5; absolute שָׁעָה חֲדָה Daniel 4:16 for a moment.
Strong's hour (Aramaic) from a root corresponding to sha'ah; properly, a look, i.e. A moment -- hour. see HEBREW sha'ah |
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