Strong H7768שָׁוַע

to cry

Transliteration
shâva‛
Pronunciation
shaw-vah'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

A primitive root; properly to be free; but used only causatively and reflexively to halloo (for {help} that {is} freedom from some trouble): - cry ({aloud} {out}) shout.

Detailed definition

(Piel) to cry out (for help), shout

In the Bible

Strong H7768 appears in 21 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • cry18
  • crieth2
  • shout1

First verses

  1. Job 19:7
    Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
  2. 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.
  3. Job 29:12
    Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
  4. Job 30:20
    I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
  5. Job 30:28
    I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
  6. 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.
  7. Job 36:13
    But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
  8. Job 38:41
    Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
  9. 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.
  10. Psalms 18:41
    They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.
  11. 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.
  12. Psalms 28:2
    Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
  13. Psalms 30:2
    O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
  14. 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.
  15. Psalms 72:12
    For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
  16. Psalms 88:13
    But unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
  17. Psalms 119:147
    I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
  18. 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;
  19. Lamentations 3:8
    Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
  20. 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.
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