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# שְׁוָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7724

**Sheva** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Sheva [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7724/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁוָא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7724/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Calebite 1 Ch 2:49, Σαου, Σουε. secretary, David’s time 2 S 20:25 Qr (Kt שׁיא), Ιησους, A Ισους, 𝔊L Σουσα (v. שְׂרָיָה(וּ) 1).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Sheva (2).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 20:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.25/#tree)

וּשְׁוָ֖א סֹפֵ֑ר וְצָד֥וֹק וְאֶבְיָתָ֖ר כֹּהֲנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and Sheva \[was\].secretary and Zadok and Abiathar \[were\].priests

*JPS 1917:* and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

[1 Chronicles 2:49](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.49/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.49/#tree)

וַתֵּ֗לֶד שַׁ֚עַף אֲבִ֣י מַדְמַנָּ֔ה אֶת־שְׁוָ֛א אֲבִ֥י מַכְבֵּנָ֖ה וַאֲבִ֣י גִבְעָ֑א וּבַת־כָּלֵ֖ב עַכְסָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and she.bore Shaaph the.father of.Madmannah (et) Sheva the.father of.Machbenah and the.father of.Gibea and.\[was\] the.daughter of.Caleb Achsah

*JPS 1917:* And the wife of Shaaph the father of Madmannah bore Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7724.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7724/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).