Hiss
Hiss
(, sharak’, to whistle), a term usually expressing insult and contempt (Job 27:23); so in the denunciation of the destruction of the Temple (1Ki 9:8; comp. Jer 19:8; Jer 49:17, etc.). To call any one with hissing is a mark of power and authority (Isa 5:26), and the prophet Zechariah (Zec 10:8), speaking of the return from Babylon, says that the Lord will gather the house of Judah, as it were with a hiss, and bring them back into their own country: an image familiar to his readers, as Theodoret and Cyril of Alexandria remark that, in Syria and Palestine, those who looked after bees drew them out of their hives, carried them into the fields, and brought them back again, with the sound of a flute and the noise of hissing (Isa 7:18). SEE BEE.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Hiss
to express contempt (Job 27:23). The destruction of the temple is thus spoken of (1 Kings 9:8). Zechariah (10:8) speaks of the Lord gathering the house of Judah as it were with a hiss: “I will hiss for them.” This expression may be “derived from the noise made to attract bees in hiving, or from the sound naturally made to attract a person’s attention.”
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Hiss
In the general acceptation of this word, as we now use it, it is universally, I believe, considered as a mark of reproach or contempt. And we find, that it was so used from the earliest ages. The patriarch Job, (Job 27:23) saith, that the hypocrite shall be so confounded, that men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place. And the Lord declared, that if the people departed from following him, he would cause the house which Solomon had built for the Lord to become a proverb and a bye-word, and men should hiss at it as they passed by. (1Ki 9:7-8) But, beside this acceptation of the word, certain it is, that it is also used in a favourable point of view, and sometimes means the call of the Lord to his ministers and messengers, for the performing his sovereign will and pleasure. Thus the Lord saith, that he will “lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them, that is, will call them from the end of the earth.” (Isa 5:26) So again the bee of Egypt, and the bee of Assyria, meaning the armies of those nations, the Lord saith, he will hiss for: that is, will call them. (Isa 7:18) But the ultimate object of this hissing of the Lord, in his sovereign command, is, to bring on the perpetual reproach of the ungodly. “I will make this city desolate, and an hissing: every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and hiss because of the plagues thereof.” (Jer 19:8)
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Hiss
his (, sharak): To hiss has two applications: (1) to call, (2) to express contempt or scorn.
(1) It is the translation of sharak, a mimetic word meaning to hiss or whistle, to call (bees, etc.), (a) Isa 5:26, I will hiss unto them from the ends of the earth, the Revised Version (British and American) hiss for them (margin him) from the end of the earth; Isa 7:18, Yahweh will hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria; namely, Egyptians whose land was noted for flies (Isa 18:1) and Assyrians whose country was pre-eminently one of bees. Dangerous enemies are compared to bees in Deu 1:44; Psa 118:12 (Skinner’s Isaiah): Zec 10:8, I will hiss for them, and gather them (His own people, who will come at His call).
(2) More often, to hiss is to express contempt or derision (1Ki 9:8; Job 27:23; Jer 19:8, etc.). In this sense we have also frequently a hissing (2Ch 29:8; Jer 19:8; Jer 25:9, Jer 25:18; Jer 29:18; Jer 51:37; Mic 6:16, sherekah); Jer 18:16, sherkoth or sherukoth; Ecclesiasticus 22:1, Every one will hiss him (the slothful man) out in his disgrace (eksursso, to hiss out); The Wisdom of Solomon 17:9, hissing of serpents (surigmos).