Lexical Summary shaga: to be mad Original Word: שָׁגַעTransliteration: shaga Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-gah') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be mad Meaning: to rave through insanity Strong's Concordance play the mad man A primitive root; to rave through insanity -- (be, play the) mad (man). Brown-Driver-Briggs H7696. shaga [שָׁגַע] Pu`al be mad (Arabic coo, of male pigeon, utter long whinny, of camel (compare HoffmZAW iii (1883), 89 RSJPhil. Xiv. 119 f. GoldziherArab. Philol. i. 59 ff. LagBN 202); Ethiopic be mad (n insert, Di1055 BaES 50); Assyrian šegû, rage, howl; on meaning in Hebrew see especially WeSkizzen iii. 130); — Pu`al Participle as adjective : predicate מְשֻׁגָּע וְהָיִיתָ Deuteronomy 28:34 thou shalt be maddened (מִן because of), figurative for driven to despair; ׳מ of prophets, contemptuously Hosea 9:7, וּמִתְנַבֵּא מ ׳כָּלאִֿישׁ Jeremiah 29:26, as substantive 2 Kings 9:11; plural מְשֻׁגָּעִים 1 Samuel 21:16 madmen. Hithpa`el shew madness; Participle מִשְׁתַּגֵּעַ אִישׁ 1 Samuel 21:15; Infinitive construct לְהִשְׁתַּגֵּעַ v.1 Samuel 21:16. |
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