sha.gal denotes the violation of women in scenes of conquest, threat, and accusation.

The attested use concerns women being violated: in scenes of threatened or completed devastation and in Jeremiah’s accusatory question. The supplied forms occur in active, passive, and intensive passive morphology, while the verses consistently place the action upon women.

1. Violation of women · dominant

   In Deuteronomy 28:30, the Qal imperfect form occurs in the warning that a betrothed woman will be acted against by another man. In Isaiah 13:16 and Zechariah 14:2, Niphal imperfect forms occur with women amid plunder and capture; in Jeremiah 3:2, the Pual perfect form is used in the question about where the addressed woman has not been so treated. In Deuteronomy 28:30 the APB renders the clause "another man shall ravish her," and the other verses likewise use "ravished."

   Deuteronomy 28:30Isaiah 13:16Jeremiah 3:2Zechariah 14:2

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses "ravish" or "ravished" in all four verses. Because it is a whole-verse translation text, this rendering confirms the scenes’ overall presentation without isolating every nuance of the Hebrew forms.