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# שׁוֹעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7772

**Shoa** — 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

Shoa [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7772/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוֹעַ: adj. free independent, noble n.pr.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7772/#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, 1 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: Shoa (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 23:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.23/#tree)

בְּנֵ֧י בָבֶ֣ל וְכָל־כַּשְׂדִּ֗ים פְּק֤וֹד וְשׁ֙וֹעַ֙ וְק֔וֹעַ כָּל־בְּנֵ֥י אַשּׁ֖וּר אוֹתָ֑ם בַּח֨וּרֵי חֶ֜מֶד פַּח֤וֹת וּסְגָנִים֙ כֻּלָּ֔ם שָֽׁלִשִׁים֙ וּקְרוּאִ֔ים רֹכְבֵ֥י סוּסִ֖ים כֻּלָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* the.people of.Babylon and all \[the\].Chaldeans Pekod and Shoa and Koa all the.people of.Assyria with them young.men of.desire governors and officials of.them all officers and \[those.who.are\].called \[who\].rode of.horses of.them all

*JPS 1917:* the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, handsome young men, governors and rulers all of them, captains and councillors, all of them riding upon horses.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7772.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7772/): 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).