Strong's Hebrew #7616 - שָׁבָב shebabim (probably splinters)

broken in pieces

From an unused root meaning to break up; a fragment, i.e. Ruin -- broken in pieces.

1) splinters, fragment
1a) meaning probable
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root meaning to break up
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2309a

שְׁבָבִים) noun [masculine] plural probably splinters; — יִהְיֶה עֵגֶל שֹׁמְרוֺן ׳שׁ Hosea 8:6 (compare We; Vrss appar, conjecture).

II. שׁבב (Assyrian šabâbu, blaze, compare Syriac burn, ray, flesh (Lexicons, compare PS); Arabic is blaze up (cf Ba^{ES 50}) but = שׁ ? (Another; etymology in Ber^{Daniel 8:22})).

Strong's Hebrew: 7616. שְׁבָבִים (shebabim) — 1 Occurrence

Hosea 8:6
HEB: ה֑וּא כִּֽי־ שְׁבָבִ֣ים יִֽהְיֶ֔ה עֵ֖גֶל
NAS: of Samaria will be broken to pieces.
KJV: of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
INT: this Surely will be broken become the calf