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# שׁוֹא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7722

**ravage** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ravage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7722/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוֹא: ravage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7722/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] ravage (?);—pl. sf. שֹׁאֵיהֶם ψ 35:17 rescue me from their ravages (si vera l.); 𝔊 κακουργία; Ol Dy Gr CheComm. plausibly שַׁאֲגָם their roaring, cf. v 16, 17c; We Du שֹׁאֲגִים.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: ravages (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 35:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.17/#tree)

אֲדֹנָי֮ כַּמָּ֪ה תִּ֫רְאֶ֥ה הָשִׁ֣יבָה נַ֭פְשִׁי מִשֹּׁאֵיהֶ֑ם מִ֝כְּפִירִ֗ים יְחִידָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* Lord my how long? will.you.look bring back life my from ravages their from young.lions my.only \[life\]

*JPS 1917:* Lord, how long wilt Thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, mine only one from the lions.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7722.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7722/): 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).