she.re.qah denotes the public object of derision or hissing made by devastation and judgment.

The attested use consistently names the disgraceful public result of devastation: lands, cities, and peoples are made an object of hissing alongside horror, desolation, ruin, curse, or reproach.

1. A public object of derision after devastation · dominant

   The noun occurs in judgment-result clauses describing Judah, Jerusalem, other lands, and Babylon as made into a publicly appalling condition. In 2 Chronicles 29:8 the APB renders Judah and Jerusalem as an object of “trembling, horror, desolation, and hissing”; in Jeremiah 19:8 it renders the city as an “object of hissing” while passersby are horrified and hiss because of its wounds. Jeremiah 18:16 uses the plural construct form in the phrase rendered “an everlasting hissing,” with passersby appalled and shaking their heads.

   2 Chronicles 29:8Jeremiah 18:16Jeremiah 19:8Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 29:18Jeremiah 51:37

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the verses, the APB commonly renders the noun with “hissing,” often in phrases such as “an object of hissing” or “an everlasting hissing,” alongside horror and desolation. These renderings show the verse-level presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent.