Strong's Definition
(in a good acceptation) to look upon (with complacency), i.e. fondle, please or amuse (self); (in a bad one) to look about (in dismay), i.e. stare
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: cry (out) (by confusion with H7768 (שָׁוַע)), dandle, delight (self), play, shut.
TWOT Reference: 2435,2436
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
שָׁעַע (sha.a) — to smear. 1) to be smeared over, be blinded 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be smeared over, be blinded 1a2) to smear eyes shut 1b) (Hiphil) to besmear (of eyes), smear over eyes 1c) (Hithpalpel) to blind oneself, be blinded
שָׁעַע (sha.a) — to delight. 1) to sport, take delight in 1a) (Pilpel) to sport, delight in, take delight in, delight oneself 1b) (Palpal) to be fondled 1c) (Hithpalpel) to delight oneself
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Close | Unable | verb qal
to be blinded = state in which human eyes are closed ► as a result of which they are unable to see, ≈ with the connotation of being unwilling to face reality
Close | Unable | verb hit
to blind oneself = action by which humans keep their eyes closed ► as a result of which they are unable to see, ≈ with the connotation of being unwilling to face reality
Close | Unable | verb hif
to blind = causative action by which humans cause other humans to keep their eyes closed ► as a result of which they are unable to see, ≈ with the connotation of being unwilling to face reality
verb · שַׁעֲשׁוּעִים
Rejoice | verb pi, verb hit
to find joy, to delight oneself, to play poetic term; = process by which humans find joy in an activity
Rejoice | verb pi
to bring joy, to delight, to cheer poetic term; = process by which divine intervention bring joy to humans
Rejoice | verb pu'al
Collocation: שׁעע עַל־בִּרְכַּיִם
to dandle, to bounce poetic term; literally: to delight (someone) on (one's) knees; hence, probably: = causative action by which humans bring joy to small children by bouncing them on their knees
1 ISA 32:3 MT שׁעה
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[שָׁעַע] vb. be smeared over, blinded Qal Hithpalp. blind yourselves and be blind!
Hiph. and its eyes besmear!
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[שָׁעַע] vb. Pilp., etc., sport, take delight in, delight Pilp. the suckling shall sport on the cobra’s hole
Palp. upon the knees shall ye be fondled.
Hithpalp. in thy statutes will I delight myself
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