H7768: שָׁוַע
shâvaʻ · pronounced shaw-vah' · “to cry”
Definition
properly, to be free; but used only causatively and reflexively, to halloo (for help, i.e. freedom from some trouble)
KJV translates it as: cry (aloud, out), shout.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7768 is translated
- i cry for help ×3
- i cried for help ×3
- they cry for help ×2
- i ×2
- it cries for help ×1
- who cried for help ×1
- i cry out for help ×1
- they will cry for help ×1
- they cried for help ×1
- he ×1
- who cries for help ×1
- ! ×1
Bible verses with H7768 (shâvaʻ)
Shâvaʻ appears in 21 verses.
- Job 19:7
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
- Job 24:12
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
- Job 29:12
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
- Job 30:20
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
- Job 30:28
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
- Job 35:9
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
- Job 36:13
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
- Job 38:41
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
- Psalms 18:6
In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
- Psalms 18:41
They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.
- Psalms 22:24
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
- Psalms 28:2
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
- Psalms 30:2
O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
- Psalms 31:22
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
- Psalms 72:12
For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
- Psalms 88:13
But unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
- Psalms 119:147
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
- Isaiah 58:9
Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
- Lamentations 3:8
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
- Jonah 2:2
And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
- Habakkuk 1:2
O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!