STRONGS NUMBER H2237


Word Summary
zarar: to sneeze
Original Word: זָרַר
Transliteration: zarar
Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-rar')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to sneeze
Meaning: to diffuse, to sneeze
Strong's Concordance
sneeze

A primitive root (compare zuwr); perhaps to diffuse, i.e. (specifically) to sneeze -- sneeze.

see HEBREW zuwr

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2237. zarar

[זָרַר‎] verb only

Po`el sneeze (compare ᵑ7 זְרִירוֺ(ה)יJob 41:10 for Hebrew עֲטִישֹׁתָיו‎; verb probably onomatopoetic); — פעמים֯ שׁבע עד הַנַּעַר וַיְזוֺרֵר2 Kings 4:35 **omitted ᵐ5‎; Gr Bur think MT arose (by dittograph) from עַלהַֿנַּעַר וַיִּגְהַר‎.