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
- Job 19:7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
- Job 24:12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
- Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
- Job 30:20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
- Job 30:28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
- Job 35:9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
- Job 36:13But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
- Job 38:41Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
- Psalms 18:6In 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 18:41They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.
- Psalms 22:24For 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 28:2Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
- Psalms 30:2O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
- Psalms 31:22For 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 72:12For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
- Psalms 88:13But unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
- Psalms 119:147I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
- Isaiah 58:9Then 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 3:8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
- Jonah 2:2And 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.