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# שׁוּעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7770

**Shua** — 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

Shua [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7770/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוּעַ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7770/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. father of Judah’s wife, 𝔊 Σαυα, Gn 38:2 and (after cstr. בַּת) v 12 1 Ch 2:3; v. בַּת־שׁוּע p. 124 supr., and cf. on meaning (אֲבִי)שׁוּעַ p. 4, (אֱלִי)שׁוּעַ p. 46.

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 (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] Shua (1); of Shua (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 38:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.2/#tree)

וַיַּרְא־שָׁ֧ם יְהוּדָ֛ה בַּת־אִ֥ישׁ כְּנַעֲנִ֖י וּשְׁמ֣וֹ שׁ֑וּעַ וַיִּקָּחֶ֖הָ וַיָּבֹ֥א אֵלֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and he.saw there Judah a.daughter of.a.man a.Canaanite and name his \[was\].Shua and he took.her and he.went into her

*JPS 1917:* And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in unto her.

[Genesis 38:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.12/#tree)

וַיִּרְבּוּ֙ הַיָּמִ֔ים וַתָּ֖מָת בַּת־שׁ֣וּעַ אֵֽשֶׁת־יְהוּדָ֑ה וַיִּנָּ֣חֶם יְהוּדָ֗ה וַיַּ֜עַל עַל־גֹּֽזֲזֵ֤י צֹאנוֹ֙ ה֗וּא וְחִירָ֛ה רֵעֵ֥הוּ הָעֲדֻלָּמִ֖י תִּמְנָֽתָה׃

*Word for word:* and they.increased the days and she.died the.daughter of.Shua the.wife of.Judah and he.was.comforted Judah and he.went.up to the.shearers his.sheep his he and Hirah friend his the Adullamite to Timnah

*JPS 1917:* And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7770.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7770/): 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).