8173 - sha'a'

Strong's Concordance

Original word: שָׁעַע
Transliteration: sha'a'
Definition (short): stare
Definition (full): to look upon, fondle, please, amuse, to look about, stare

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

A primitive root; (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 -- cry (out) (by confusion with shava'), dandle, delight (self), play, shut.

see HEBREW shava'

KJV: In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
NASB: When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations delight my soul.
KJV: I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
NASB: I shall delight in Your statutes; I shall not forget Your word. Gimel.
KJV: And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
NASB: I shall delight in Your commandments, Which I love.
KJV: Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
NASB: Their heart is covered with fat, But I delight in Your law.
KJV: Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
NASB: "Render the hearts of this people insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim, Otherwise they might see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their hearts, And return and be healed."