Word Study · Strong's H7770 · Hebrew
שׁוּעַ
Shua
shoo'-ah
Strong's 1890 spelling: Shûwaʻ
“Shua, a Canaanite”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Shua, a Canaanite
Rendered in the KJV as
Shua, Shuah.
- 3occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 3inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 3 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 3
- שׁ֑וּעַ1
- שׁ֣וּעַ1
- שׁ֖וּעַ1
How it is rendered · 3
- -shua1
- [was] Shua1
- Shua1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- proper noun (a name)2
- proper noun (a name)1
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- HNpm · 2
- HNpf · 1
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Where this word lives
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Genesis2 occurrences
- Genesis 38:2שׁ֑וּעַshua'proper noun (a name)There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her.here: [was] Shua
- Genesis 38:12שׁ֣וּעַshua'proper noun (a name)After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.here: Shua
Same headword in Strong's