Lexical Summary sheruqah or sheriqah: hissing, whistling, piping Original Word: שְׁרוּקָהTransliteration: sheruqah or sheriqah Phonetic Spelling: (sher-oo-kaw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: hissing, whistling, piping Meaning: hissing, whistling, piping Strong's Concordance bleating, hissing Or (by permutation) shriyqah {sher-ee- kaw'}; feminine passive participle of sharaq; a whistling (in scorn); by analogy, a piping -- bleating, hissing. see HEBREW sharaq Brown-Driver-Briggs H8292. sheruqah or sheriqah [שְׁרִיקָה] noun [feminine] hissing, perhaps also whistling, piping; — plural absolute (intensive) שְׁרִיקֹת Jeremiah 18:16 Qr hissing, in derision, + שַׁמָּה (see שְׁרֵקָה), Kt שרוקת; construct עֲדָרִים שְׁרִקוֺת Judges 5:16 as signal hissings (or whistlings, pipings) for flocks. שׁרר (√ of [שָׁרִיר], שְׁרִירוּת, and perhaps of other words following; Old Aramaic שר be firm sound, Aramaic שְׁרַר be firm, hard, be firm, consistent, substantial, truthful, strengthen confirm : Aramaic and Late Hebrew שָׁרִיר firm, hard; firmness, strength, constancy). |
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