sa.ar denotes a destructive storm image in a comparison with hail, tempest, and flooding waters.

The attested use presents sa.ar as a destructive storm image within a sequence comparing the Lord's strong agent to hail, a tempest, and an overwhelming flood.

1. Destructive storm in a sequence of calamity images · dominant

   In Isaiah 28:2, the construct-form noun occurs in a comparison that also names hail, a destroying tempest, and mighty overflowing waters. The APB renders the verse's storm imagery as “like a hailstorm, a destroying tempest,” but its whole-verse wording does not isolate this noun's exact English counterpart.

   Isaiah 28:2

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Isaiah 28:2, the APB presents the clause through a cluster of destructive weather and flood images, including “a hailstorm” and “a destroying tempest.” Its exact rendering of this noun cannot be isolated.