Lexical Definition

‎שֵׁאת‎ shêʼth (shayth) devastation ^H:N-F
from ‎שָׁאָה‎

desolation.

• devastation

1) ruin, devastation
1a) meaning doubtful

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎שֵׁאת‎ noun feminine doubtful word; perhaps (for *‎שֶׁאֶת‎) din of battle (= ‎שָׁאוֺן‎); Thes and others devastation, compare ‎שְׁאִיָּה‎; either meaning suits ‎׳‎‎הַשּׁ‎ Lam 3:47 (|| ‎הַשָּׁ֑בֶר‎; but We^{compare Hex. 2, 351}, from II. ‎שׁוא‎, desolation); contracted (according to Thes and most) ‎שֵׁת‎, in ‎בְּנֵי שֵׁת‎ Num 24:17 (J) sons of (battle-)din (warriors, = ‎שָׁאוֺןבְּנֵי‎ in || Jer 48:45); Vrss take ‎שֵׁת‎ here as proper name; Gray proposes ‎שֵׂת‎ = ‎שְׂאֵת‎, pride, or reading as Jeremiah compare We^{comp. Hex.351}.

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