שָׁעָה
sha.ah (H8160)
moment
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# שָׁעָה (sha'ah): A Moment in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word שָׁעָה (sha'ah) refers to a *moment*—a brief, discrete unit of time. This lemma appears five times across the biblical corpus, which constrains but does not fully determine its semantic range. The word functions as a noun denoting temporal brevity, capturing the concept of an instantaneous or short duration rather than an extended period. Given its limited frequency in the biblical text, sha'ah appears to have served a specific communicative purpose: to mark or emphasize the brevity of an event or action. The five occurrences suggest this was not a primary or everyday term for time measurement in biblical Hebrew, but rather a specialized vocabulary choice when writers needed to convey the sense of something happening quickly or lasting only a short while. Without access to the specific verses in which it appears, the precise contexts remain unknown, but the definition itself reveals the word's semantic core: the notion of temporal quickness or instantaneity.
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Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”
Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”
Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, “Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you.” Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries.
This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.