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American Tract Society Bible Dictionary [1]

As a mode of calling an attendant to his master's side, is a custom very prevalent in Palestine. Says Osborne, "Whenever a servant was wanted, the usual shee!' which is so common throughout the land, started two or three in an instant." The same custom is evidently alluded to in  Isaiah 5:26;  7:18; "The Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt," etc.

Webster's Dictionary [2]

(1): ( p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hiss

(2): ( n.) The act of emitting a hiss or hisses.

(3): ( n.) The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision.

King James Dictionary [3]

HISS'ING, ppr. Making the noise of serpents.

HISS'ING, n. A hissing sound an expression of scorn or contempt.

1. The occasion of contempt the object of scorn and derision.

I will make this city desolate,and a hissing.  Jeremiah 19

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