Strong H7737H7737Aשָׁוָה
be like
One of the 2 senses of Strong H7737
- Transliteration
- shâvâh
- Pronunciation
- shaw-vaw'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
1) to agree with, be or become like, level, resemble
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be like
1a2) equivalent (participle)
1a3) to set, place
1a4) setting (participle)
1b) (Piel) to level, smooth, still
1c) (Hiphil) to make like
1d) (Nithpael) to be alike
Aramaic equivalent: she.vah (שְׁוָה "be like" H7739A)
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be like
1a2) equivalent (participle)
1a3) to set, place
1a4) setting (participle)
1b) (Piel) to level, smooth, still
1c) (Hiphil) to make like
1d) (Nithpael) to be alike
Aramaic equivalent: she.vah (שְׁוָה "be like" H7739A)
General definition
A primitive root; properly to {level} that {is} equalize; figuratively to resemble; by implication to adjust (that {is} {counterbalance} be {suitable} {compose} {place} {yield} etc.): - {avail} {behave} bring {forth} {compare} {countervail} ({be} make) {equal} {lay} be ({make} a-) {like} make {plain} {profit} reckon.
In the Bible
Strong H7737A appears in 14 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- be2
- compare2
- profit2
- availeth1
- behave1
- countervail1
- equal1
- lay1
- make1
- shall1
- thou1
First verses
- Esther 3:8And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.
- Esther 5:13Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.
- Esther 7:4For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.
- Job 33:27He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
- Psalms 119:30I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
- Psalms 131:2Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
- Proverbs 3:15She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
- Proverbs 8:11For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
- Proverbs 26:4Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
- Proverbs 27:15A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
- Isaiah 28:25When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
- Isaiah 40:25To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
- Isaiah 46:5To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
- Lamentations 2:13What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?