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# שׁוֹעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7771

**free** — 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

free [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7771/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוֹעַ: adj. free independent, noble n.pr.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7771/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. (free), independent, noble (in station) (according to most from second √ שׁוע = ישׁע, in sense of Arabic وَسِع (cf. תְּשׁוּעָה infr.); but actual existence of such a √ not proven; Thes allows שׁוֹעַ = יְשׁוֹעַ)—noble, of rank (and, by implic., of character) Is 32:5 (‖ נָדִיב, opp. כִּילַי), Jb 34:19 (Di al. rich, but ‖ שָׂרִים, opp. דַּל).—ii. שׁוֹעַ Is 22:5, v. sub \[שָׁוַע\]. iii. שׁוֹעַ n.pr.gent. Ez 23:23, v. שׁ׳.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 32:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.5/#tree)

לֹֽא־יִקָּרֵ֥א ע֛וֹד לְנָבָ֖ל נָדִ֑יב וּלְכִילַ֕י לֹ֥א יֵֽאָמֵ֖ר שֽׁוֹעַ׃

*Word for word:* not it.will.be.called again to a.fool noble and of a.scoundrel not it.will.be.said a.noble.person

*JPS 1917:* The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be noble.

[Job 34:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.19/#tree)

אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא־נָשָׂ֨א ׀ פְּנֵ֥י שָׂרִ֗ים וְלֹ֣א נִכַּר־שׁ֭וֹעַלִפְנֵי־דָ֑ל כִּֽי־מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה יָדָ֣יו כֻּלָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* who not he.lifts.up \[the\].faces of.princes and not he.regards a.noble.person before a.poor.\[person\] (dm) \[are.the\].work his.hands his of.them all

*JPS 1917:* That respecteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? For they all are the work of His hands.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7771.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7771/): 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).