שָׁאוֹן shaon
Hebrew word for “roar” · Strong’s H7588 · used 18 times in 16 verses
Meaning
1) roar, din, crash, uproar; 1a) roar (of water); 1b) uproar (of revellers)
How it is translated
Glosses given for shaon in context, with how often each is used:
- uproar 14
- like the uproar 2
- roaring 1
- noise 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Isaiah 17 (2), Psalms 40 (1), Psalms 65 (1), Psalms 74 (1), Isaiah 5 (1), Isaiah 13 (1), Isaiah 24 (1), Isaiah 25 (1), Isaiah 66 (1), Jeremiah 25 (1)
Forms
- שׁאון 13
- כשׁאון 2
- ושׁאונה 1
- ושׁאון 1
- בשׁאון 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shaon more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- הָמוֹן hamon “crowd” 4
- לְאֹם leom “people” 3
- קוֹל qol “voice” 5
- שָׁאָה shaah “to crash” 2
- רַב rav “many” 4
- גַּל gal “heap” 2
- הָמָה hamah “to roar” 2
- צֵל tsel “shadow” 2
- שָׁדַד shadad “to ruin” 2
- מַי mayim “water” 3
- קוּם qum “to arise” 3
- נוּס nus “to flee” 2
Key verses
The verses using shaon that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Psalms 40:2 — He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
- Psalms 65:7 — Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
- Psalms 74:23 — Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
- Isaiah 5:14 — Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall…
- Isaiah 13:4 — The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts…
- Isaiah 17:12 — Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of…
- Isaiah 17:13 — The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the…
- Isaiah 25:5 — Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be…
- Isaiah 66:6 — A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
- Jeremiah 25:31 — A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are…
- Jeremiah 51:55 — Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
- Hosea 10:14 — Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was…
See all 16 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.