Hebrew verb · H7768
שָׁוַע
shavashaw-vah'
to cry
21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâvaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7768is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 19spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7768
properly, to be free; but used only causatively and reflexively, to halloo (for help, i.e. freedom from some trouble)
The King James renders it: cry (aloud, out), shout.
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
shava is rendered "to cry". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 19:7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
- The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.
The first use
Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
Job 19:7אֲ֝שַׁוַּ֗ע
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- I cried for help3
- I cry for help3
- they cry for help2
- and I cried for help1
- and I may cry for help1
- and when cried for help he1
- cried for help1
- cries for help1
- have I cried for help1
- I cry out for help1
- it cries for help1
- they cried for help1
and 4 more, 21 uses in all
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.
The words it stands beside
All 21, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
19 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
- מְשַׁוֵּ֑עַ2
- שִׁוַּ֖עְתִּי2
- אֲשַׁ֫וֵּ֥עַ1
- אֲ֝שַׁוַּ֗ע1
- אֲשַׁוַּ֣ע1
- אֲשַׁוֵּֽעַ׃1
- בְּשַׁוְּעִ֣י1
- בְּשַׁוְּעִ֥י1
- וַאֲשַׁוֵּ֔עַ1
- וָאֲשַׁוֵּ֑עָה1
- וּֽבְשַׁוְּע֖וֹ1
- יְשַׁוְּע֥וּ1
and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular4HVpi1cs
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural4HVpi3mp
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular4HVpp1cs
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HR/Vpcc/Sp1bs
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular2HVprmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/R/Vpcc/Sp3ms
- HC/Vpu1cs1HC/Vpu1cs
- Hc/Vpw1cs/Sh1Hc/Vpw1cs/Sh
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpi2ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVpi3fs
Job
eight uses
Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
- אֲ֝שַׁוַּ֗עʾashava'verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I cry for help
From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
- תְּשַׁוֵּ֑עַteshavea'verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it cries for help
because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
- מְשַׁוֵּ֑עַmeshavea'verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: cried for help
I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
- אֲשַׁוַּ֣עʾashava'verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I cry for help
I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
- אֲשַׁוֵּֽעַ׃ʾashavea'verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I cry out for help
Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
- יְשַׁוְּע֖וּyeshaveuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they cry for help
The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help.
- יְ֝שַׁוְּע֗וּyeshaveuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they cry for help
Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
- יְשַׁוֵּ֑עוּyeshaveuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will cry for help
Psalms
nine uses
In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.
- אֲשַׁ֫וֵּ֥עַʾashavea'verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I cried for help
They cried for help, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but He did not answer.
- יְשַׁוְּע֥וּyeshaveuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they cried for help
For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.
- וּֽבְשַׁוְּע֖וֹuveshaveoconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and when cried for help he
Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
- בְּשַׁוְּעִ֣יbeshaveipreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: when cry for help I
O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.
- שִׁוַּ֥עְתִּיshiva'tiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I cried for help
In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
- בְּשַׁוְּעִ֥יbeshaveipreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: when cried for help I
For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
- מְשַׁוֵּ֑עַmeshavea'verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: cries for help
But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
- שִׁוַּ֑עְתִּיshiva'tiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I cry for help
I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.
- וָאֲשַׁוֵּ֑עָהvaashaveahHc/Vpw1cs/Shtagged: and I cried for help
Isaiah
one use
Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and malicious talk,
- תְּשַׁוַּ֖עteshava'verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will cry for help
Lamentations
one use
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
- וַאֲשַׁוֵּ֔עַvaashavea'HC/Vpu1cstagged: and I may cry for help
Jonah
one use
saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.
- שִׁוַּ֖עְתִּיshiva'tiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I cried for help
Habakkuk
one use
How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
- שִׁוַּ֖עְתִּיshiva'tiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: have I cried for help
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
