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 Schw^{Idioticon 97} Schulth^Lex.211; perhaps = Assyrian šattu, duration; Tel Amarna^{91, 77} še-ti, time, hour (as Canaanism) Wkl^{KAT 3. 335}; Arabic , portion of time, Ethiopic time, hour, time (Buhl calls Arabic Ethiopic loan-words, but see Wkl^l.c); √ unknown: possibly Assyrian loan-word (see Wkl^l.c); Dl^{Pr 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, M^{86* 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.