2 Chronicles 29:8
Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
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Hissing
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Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
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שְׁרֵקָה
shᵉrêqâh · sher-ay-kaw'
7 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a derision
Strong's KJV usage: hissing.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 29:8Strong's last: Micah 6:16
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shᵉrûwqâh · sher-oo-kaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a whistling (in scorn); by analogy, a piping
Strong's KJV usage: bleating, hissing.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 18:16Strong's last: Jeremiah 18:16
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H8292
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
H8322
And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
H8322
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
H8322
To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
H8322
And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
H8322
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
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hissing
HISS'ING, participle present tense Making the noise of serpents.
HISS'ING, noun A hissing sound; an expression of scorn or contempt.
1. The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision.
I will make this city desolate, and a hissing Jeremiah 19:8.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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