Lexical Definition

‎שָׁעָה‎ shâʻâh (shaw-aw') moment ^A:N-F
(Aramaic) from a root corresponding to ‎שָׁעָה‎

hour.

• properly, a look, i.e. a moment

1) brief time, moment

See Greek: ὥρα

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. [‎שַׁ֫עַר‎] noun [masculine] measure (properly reckoning); — plural ‎מֵאָה שְׁעָרִים‎ Gen 26:12 (J) 100 measures, i.e. 100 for one = 100-fold.

‎שָׁעָה‎ noun feminine brief time, moment (ᵑ7 id., ‎שָֽׁעֲתָא‎, Late Hebrew ‎שָׁעָה‎ time, hour; Syriac moment, then hour Brock³⁶⁹, but Christian-Palestinian Aramaic moment, hour Schw^{Idioticon 97} Schulth^Lex.211; perhaps = Assyrian šattu, duration; Tel Amarna^{91, 77} še-ti, time, hour (as Canaanism) Wkl^{KAT 3. 335}; Arabic , portion of time, Ethiopic time, hour, time (Buhl calls Arabic Ethiopic loan-words, but see Wkl^l.c); √ unknown: possibly Assyrian loan-word (see Wkl^l.c); Dl^{Pr 39 f.} conjecture* ‎שׁיע‎ = ‎שָׁעָה‎ look, hence moment = 'Augenblick,' but verb ‎׳‎‎שׁ‎ rather of steadygaze); — moment: usually emphatic ‎בַּהּשַֿׁעֲתָא‎ (read possibly ‎׳‎‎שָֽׁ‎ as ᵑ7 Syriac, M^{86 * f.} Buhl¹⁴ compare variant reading in Str) in the same moment, forthwith Dan 3:6; Dan 3:15; Dan 4:30*; Dan 5:5 absolute ‎שָׁעָה חֲדָה‎ Dan 4:16* for a moment.

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