Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H7739
שְׁוָה
shevahshev-aw'
be like; be set
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shᵉvâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7739is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7739
to resemble
The King James renders it: make like.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
shevah is rendered "be like; be set". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "be like".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 3:29Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble. For there is no other god who can deliver in this way.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble. For there is no other god who can deliver in this way.”
Daniel 3:29יִשְׁתַּוֵּ֑ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: be like, and be set.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| be likeStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereDaniel 3:29Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against… |
| be setStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it will be made1
- they made1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יִשְׁתַּוֵּ֑ה1
- שַׁוִּ֗יְו1
The grammar of each form
- verb · poal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1AVMi3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AVpp3mp
Daniel
two uses
Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble. For there is no other god who can deliver in this way.”
- יִשְׁתַּוֵּ֑הyishtavehverb · poal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be made
He was driven away from mankind, and his mind was like that of a beast. He lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he acknowledged that the Most High God rules over the kingdom of mankind, setting over it whom He wishes.
- שַׁוִּ֗יְוsheviverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they made
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.