Shâvâh — H7737
H7737 · Hebrew — שוה
Pronunciation: shaw-vaw'
Definition
verb
properly, to level, i.e. equalize; figuratively, to resemble; by implication, to adjust (i.e. counterbalance, be suitable, compose, place, yield, etc.)
- to agree with, be or become like, level, resemble
- (Qal)
- to be like
- equivalent (participle)
- to set, place
- setting (participle)
- (Piel) to level, smooth, still
- (Hiphil) to make like
- (Nithpael) to be alike
- (Piel) to set, place
Usually translated as
equal, countervail, like, make plain, profit, avail, behave, bring forth, compare, lay, be, reckon
Origin
a primitive root
Greek equivalents
Occurrences
Shâvâh occurs 21 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Samuel (1), Esther (3), Job (1), Psalms (6), Proverbs (4), Isaiah (4), Lamentations (1), Hosea (1)
- 2 Samuel 22:34 — He maketh (מְשַׁוֶּ֥ה) my feet like hinds’ feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
- Esther 3:8 — And 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 (שֹׁוֶ֖ה) to suffer them.
- Esther 5:13 — Yet all this availeth (שֹׁוֶ֖ה) me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.
- Esther 7:4 — For 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 (שֹׁוֶ֖ה) the king’s damage.
- Job 33:27 — He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited (שָׁ֥וָה) me not;
- Psalms 16:8 — I have set (שִׁוִּ֬יתִי) the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
- Psalms 18:33 — He maketh (מְשַׁוֶּ֣ה) my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
- Psalms 21:5 — His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid (תְּשַׁוֶּ֥ה) upon him.
- Psalms 89:19 — Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid (שִׁוִּ֣יתִי) help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
- Psalms 119:30 — I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid (שִׁוִּֽיתִי) before me.
- Psalms 131:2 — Surely I have behaved (שִׁוִּ֨יתִי) and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
- Proverbs 3:15 — She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared (יִֽשְׁווּ) unto her.
- Proverbs 8:11 — For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared (יִֽשְׁווּ) to it.
- Proverbs 26:4 — Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like (תִּשְׁוֶה) unto him.
- Proverbs 27:15 — A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike (נִשְׁתָּוָֽה).
- Isaiah 28:25 — When he hath made plain (שִׁוָּ֣ה) 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 38:13 — I reckoned (שִׁוִּ֤יתִי) till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- Isaiah 40:25 — To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal (וְאֶשְׁוֶ֑ה)? saith the Holy One.
- Isaiah 46:5 — To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal (וְתַשְׁו֑וּ), and compare me, that we may be like?
- Lamentations 2:13 — What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal (אַשְׁוֶה) to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
- Hosea 10:1 — Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth (יְשַׁוֶּה) fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
Strong's Lexicon — S