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# שַׁוְעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7775

**cry for help** — used 11 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

cry for help [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7775/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁוְעָה: n.f. cry for help [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7775/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cry for help;—cstr. שַׁוְעַת 1 S 5:12; Je 8:19; sf. שַׁוְעָתִי 2 S 22:7 = ψ 18:7, ψ 39:13; 40:2; 102:2; La 3:56 (gloss on רוחתי Ew al.); שַׁוְעָתָם Ex 2:23 (P), ψ 34:16; 145:19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: my cry (5); for help (4); of the cry for help (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 34:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.34.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.34.16/#tree)

עֵינֵ֣י יְ֭הוָה אֶל־צַדִּיקִ֑ים וְ֝אָזְנָ֗יו אֶל־שַׁוְעָתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* the.eyes of.Yahweh \[are\].to righteous.\[people\] and ears his \[are\].to for.help their.cry

*JPS 1917:* The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry.

[Psalms 40:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.2/#tree)

קַוֺּ֣ה קִוִּ֣יתִי יְהוָ֑ה וַיֵּ֥ט אֵ֝לַ֗י וַיִּשְׁמַ֥ע שַׁוְעָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* patiently.(wait) I.waited.for Yahweh and he.stretched.out to me and he.heard for.help my.cry

*JPS 1917:* I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7775.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7775/): 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).