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Strong's H8173

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H8173

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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance dictionaries from openscriptures/strongs. CC BY-SA 4.0 / Public Domain. Derived from James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890/1894.

שָׁעַעshâʻaʻshaw-ah'

Short Definition: (in a good acceptation) to look upon (with complacency)
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
KJV Definition: cry (out) (by confusion with H7768 (שָׁוַע)), dandle, delight (self), play, shut.

Hebrew occurrences:27

Lexicon entries

Brown–Driver–Briggs: שָׁעַע
Brown–Driver–Briggs: שָׁעַע
STEP Hebrew Lexicon: שָׁעַע
STEP Hebrew Lexicon: שָׁעַע

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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance dictionaries from openscriptures/strongs. CC BY-SA 4.0 / Public Domain. Derived from James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890/1894.