Strong H7770שׁוּעַ

Shua

Transliteration
shûa‛
Pronunciation
shoo'-ah
Morphology
Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person

Definition

The same as H7769; {shua} a Canaanite: - {Shua} Shuah.

Meaning of the name

Shuah = "wealth"

Detailed definition

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.38.2;
father of: Bath-shua (H1323I)
Also named: shu.a (שׁוּעָא "Shua" H7774H)

In the biblical story

Shua

Father of Canaanite wife of Judah, mother of Er, Onan, and Shelah.

Shua was the father of a Canaanite woman, the wife of Judah, and the mother of Er, Onan, and Shelah.

In the Bible

Strong H7770 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • shuah2

First verses

  1. Genesis 38:2
    And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.
  2. Genesis 38:12
    And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
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