| Translation | Verse | Text |
| King James | Jer 18:16 | To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. |
| Word | American Tract Society - Definition |
| HISSING | As a mode of calling an attendant to his master's side, is a custom very prevalent in Palestine. Says Osborne, "Whenever a servant was wanted, the usual ?shee!' which is so common throughout the land, started two or three in an instant." The same custom is evidently alluded to in Isa 5:26; 7:18; "The Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt," etc. |