Difference between revisions of "Hiss"

<p> ''''' his ''''' ( שׁרק , <i> ''''' shāraḳ ''''' </i> ): "To hiss" has two applications: (1) to call, (2) to express contempt or scorn. </p> <p> (1) It is the translation of <i> ''''' shāraḳ ''''' </i> , a mimetic word meaning to hiss or whistle, to call (bees, etc.), ( <i> a </i> ) &nbsp; Isaiah 5:26 , "I will hiss unto them from the ends of the earth," the Revised Version (British and American) "hiss for them (margin "him") from the end of the earth"; &nbsp;Isaiah 7:18 , "Yahweh will hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria"; namely, [[Egyptians]] whose land was noted for <i> flies </i> (&nbsp; Isaiah 18:1 ) and [[Assyrians]] whose country was pre-eminently one of bees. [[Dangerous]] enemies are compared to bees in &nbsp;Deuteronomy 1:44; &nbsp;Psalm 118:12 (Skinner's <i> Isaiah </i> ): &nbsp;Zechariah 10:8 , "I will hiss for them, and gather them" (His own people, who will come at His call). </p> <p> (2) More often, to hiss is to express contempt or derision (&nbsp;1 Kings 9:8; &nbsp;Job 27:23; &nbsp;Jeremiah 19:8 , etc.). In this sense we have also frequently a hissing (&nbsp; 2 Chronicles 29:8; &nbsp;Jeremiah 19:8; &nbsp;Jeremiah 25:9 , &nbsp;Jeremiah 25:18; &nbsp;Jeremiah 29:18; &nbsp;Jeremiah 51:37; &nbsp;Micah 6:16 , <i> ''''' sherēḳāh ''''' </i> ); &nbsp;Jeremiah 18:16 , <i> ''''' sherı̄ḳōth ''''' </i> or <i> ''''' sherūḳōth ''''' </i> ; [[Ecclesiasticus]] 22:1, "Every one will hiss him (the slothful man) out in his disgrace" ( <i> ''''' eksurı́ssō ''''' </i> , "to hiss out"); The Wisdom of Solomon 17:9, "hissing of serpents" ( <i> ''''' surigmós ''''' </i> ). </p>

<p> ( '''''שָׁרִק''''' , ''Sharak','' to ''Whistle),'' a term usually expressing insult and contempt (&nbsp;Job 27:23); so in the denunciation of the destruction of the [[Temple]] (&nbsp;1 Kings 9:8; comp. &nbsp;Jeremiah 19:8; &nbsp;Jeremiah 49:17, etc.). To call any one with hissing is a mark of power and authority (&nbsp;Isaiah 5:26), and the prophet Zechariah (&nbsp;Zechariah 10:8), speaking of the return from Babylon, says that the Lord will gather the house of Judah, as it were with a hiss, and bring them back into their own country: an image familiar to his readers, as [[Theodoret]] and [[Cyril]] of [[Alexandria]] remark that, in Syria and Palestine, those who looked after bees drew them out of their hives, carried them into the fields, and brought them back again, with the sound of a flute and the noise of hissing (&nbsp;Isaiah 7:18). (See [[Bee]]). </p>