שׁוּעַ
shûwaʻ · H7769 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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cry for help, cry out
Action by which humans raise their voice in times of hardship, hoping to receive help from God or someone else
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wealth
Wealth, the state in which humans are wealthy and therefore belong to the upper class of society, associated with respectability and moral character
ExamplesJob 36:19 “Will your cry for help keep you from distress, Or all the exertions of your strength?
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָyour 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָרַךְto set in order, to arrange, to draw up 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לָהֵןfor them 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- צְוָחָה tsᵉvâchâh · H6682 · crying
- Both denote crying or shouting.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Shout002004001009005
- The word names a cry for help, as in Job 30:24's "in his disaster does he not cry out for help?" and Job 36:19's "will your cry for help keep you from distress?"
- Rich002001001050
- This nuance is not directly shown by this entry's own sampled citations, which both illustrate the "cry" sense; it reflects this word's other listed gloss, "riches," a distinct sense sharing the same spelling.
- Great002001002012
- This nuance likewise belongs to this word's "riches" sense rather than the "cry" sense its own sampled citations show — wealth and abundance being reckoned a kind of greatness.
- Names of People003001007
- This domain belongs to this word's homographs, the personal names Shua (Genesis 38:2, שׁוּעַ (Shûwaʻ, H7770)) and Shua the sister of Shomer (1 Chronicles 7:32, שׁוּעָא (Shûwʻâʼ, H7774)), rather than to this common noun.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7769. shua II. שׁוּעַ noun [masculine] opulence ? (compare Arabic ) — so AE and others…
II. שׁוּעַ noun [masculine] opulence ? (compare Arabic ) — so AE and others Job 30:24; Job 36:19; but < see below [שָׁוַע]
I. שׁוּעַ, [שֶׁוַע?] noun masculine cry for help; — שׁ ׳לֶהֶן Job 30:24 (Bi Di Bu Du יְשַׁוֵּ֑עַ לֹא); שׁוּעֲךָ Job 36:19 (Bu Buhl שַׁוְעֲךָ, Du שִׂיחֲךָ). — I. שׁוּעַ.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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