שָׁרַק shâraq — properly, to be shrill, i.e. to whistle or hiss (as a call or in scorn)
Translated in the KJV as hiss.
a primitive root; properly, to be shrill, i.e. to whistle or hiss (as a call or in scorn).
shâraq in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 7Perfect (qatal) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›