Strong's Concordance shebabim: probably splinters Original Word: שְׁבָבִיםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: shebabim Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-bawb') Short Definition: pieces Brown-Driver-Briggs שְׁבָבִים) noun [masculine] plural probably splinters; — יִהְיֶה עֵגֶל שֹׁמְרוֺן ׳שׁ Hosea 8:6 (compare We; Vrss appar, conjecture). II. שׁבב (Assyrian šabâbu, blaze, compare Syriac Strong's Exhaustive Concordance broken in pieces From an unused root meaning to break up; a fragment, i.e. Ruin -- broken in pieces. Forms and Transliterations שְׁבָבִ֣ים שבבים šə·ḇā·ḇîm šəḇāḇîm shevaVimLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Hebrew 76161 Occurrence šə·ḇā·ḇîm — 1 Occ. Hosea 8:6 HEB: ה֑וּא כִּֽי־ שְׁבָבִ֣ים יִֽהְיֶ֔ה עֵ֖גֶל NAS: of Samaria will be broken to pieces. KJV: of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. INT: this Surely will be broken become the calf |
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burn, 
ray, flesh (Lexicons, compare PS); Arabic 
is blaze up (cf BaES 50) but 
= שׁ ? (Another; etymology in BerDaniel 8:22)).