שַׁ֫חַק
sha.chaq (H7834)
cloud
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# Šāḥaq: The Hebrew Word for Cloud The Hebrew word šāḥaq (שַׁחַק) appears twenty-one times in the biblical text and denotes a cloud. This straightforward meteorological term carries no indicated metaphorical extensions or abstract meanings in the provided lexical data—it refers to the visible atmospheric phenomenon itself. The word's frequency of occurrence across the biblical corpus suggests clouds held regular significance in Hebrew descriptions of natural phenomena and divine activity. However, based solely on the definition provided, we cannot determine from this lexicon entry whether the word carried symbolic weight (such as divine presence or concealment), held poetic associations, or appeared predominantly in particular literary contexts. Such contextual observations would require examination of the specific passages where šāḥaq appears, which lies outside the scope of this lexicon data. In essence, šāḥaq functions as the Hebrew biblical vocabulary item for what modern readers simply call a cloud—a neutral, descriptive term grounded in observable physical reality rather than theological abstraction.
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“There is no one like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, in his excellency on the skies.
He made darkness a shelter around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
Now men don’t see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.
Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.
Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies.
The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.
Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.”
For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.
when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,
Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.
“We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let’s each go into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.