STRONGS NUMBER H7616


Word Summary
shebabim: probably splinters
Original Word: שָׁבָב
Transliteration: shebabim
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-bawb')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: probably splinters
Meaning: probably splinters
Strong's Concordance
broken in pieces

From an unused root meaning to break up; a fragment, i.e. Ruin -- broken in pieces.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7616. shebabim

שְׁבָבִים‎) noun [masculine] plural probably splinters; — ׳שׁ שֹׁמְרוֺן עֵגֶל יִהְיֶהHosea 8:6 (compare We; Vrss appar, conjecture).

II. שׁבב‎ (Assyrian šabâbu, blaze, compare Syriac burn, ray, flesh (Lexicons, compare PS); Arabic is blaze up (cf BaES 50) but = שׁ‎ ? (Another; etymology in BerDaniel 8:22)).