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Strong's #8319 - שָׁרַק
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- to hiss, whistle, pipe
- (Qal) to hiss (as a signal)
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2882) qrs (סהרק ShRQ) AC: Whistle CO: Flute AB: ?: [from: hr- as from the wind]
V) qrs (סהרק ShRQ) - Whistle: KJV (12): (vf: Paal) hiss - Strongs: H8319 (שָׁרַק)
Nf1) eqrs (סהרקה ShRQH) - Whistling: KJV (7): hissing - Strongs: H8322 (שְׁרֵקָה)
df1) eqfrs (סהרוקה ShRWQH) - Whistling: [df: hqyrs] KJV (3): hissing, bleating - Strongs: H8292 (שְׁרִיקָה)
acff ) iqfrsm (מסהרוקי MShRWQY) - Flute: A musical instrument that whistles. KJV (4): flute - Strongs: H4953 (מַשְׁרוֹקִי)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal Perfect 3 masculine singular consecutive ׳וְשׁ Isaiah 5:26, etc.; Imperfect 3 masculine singular יִשְׁרֹק Isaiah 7:18 + ( Job 27:23 read יִשְׁרְקוּ Me Bi Siegf Bu); 1 singular אֶשְׁרְקָה Zechariah 10:8; — hiss, as signal, ל person, figurative, ׳י subject: Isaiah 5:26; Isaiah 7:18; Zechariah 10:1; in derision, עַל civitat., etc. (often + שָׁמֵם be astounded), Jeremiah 19:8; Jeremiah 49:17; Jeremiah 50:13; Lamentations 2:15 (+ הֵנִיעַ ראֹשׁ), Ezekiel 27:36; absolute Zephaniah 2:15; Lamentations 2:16; 1 Kings 9:8 (+ חָרַק שֵׁן); עַל person Job 27:23 (with מִן local).
שׁרק (ᵑ7שְׁרֵיק, Syriac , Biblical Hebrew שָׁרַק hiss, whistle (onomatopoetic).
שָׁרַק fut. יִשְׁרֹק
(1) to hiss, to whistle; zifchen, pferfen, (an onomatopoetic root, like the Greek συρίζω, συρίσσω, συρίττω, from the theme συρίγ; compare σύριγξ, σύριγμα, συρίγγιον).
(a) followed by לְ to bring near to by hissing or whistling, as bees, flies (in the manner of a bee-keeper), Isaiah 5:26, 7:18 figuratively peoples, Isa. locc. citt.; Zechariah 10:8. In other places it is
(b) in mockery (auszifchen, auspfeifen), 1 Kings 9:8; Lamentations 2:15, 16 followed by עַל of pers. or thing, Jeremiah 19:8, 49:17 pregn., Job 27:23, יִשְׁרֹק עָלָיו מִמְּקֹמוֹ “they shall hiss him out of his place.”
(2) to pipe (to whistle, not with the mouth, but with an instrument). Hence שְׁרִיקוֹת, מִשְׁרֹקִיתָא.