שָׁעָה

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.