Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to cry
Usage: (Piel) to cry out (for help), shout
Shava means “shout” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7768 שָׁוַע (shava`) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shava` (shaw-vah') v. 1. (properly) to be free 2. but used only causatively and reflexively, to halloo (for help, i.e. freedom from some trouble) It has 21 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include cry, but, and help. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
shava` (shaw-vah') v. 1. (properly) to be free 2. but used only causatively and reflexively, to halloo (for help, i.e. freedom from some trouble) [a primitive root] KJV: cry (aloud, out), shout.
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to cry
Usage: (Piel) to cry out (for help), shout
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shava`, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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21 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7768.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
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.
They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
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.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
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.
For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
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;
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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.
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7768, grouped by book.
Shava (Strong's H7768) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "shout". shava` (shaw-vah') v. 1. (properly) to be free 2. but used only causatively and reflexively, to halloo (for help, i.e. freedom from some trouble)
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's H7768 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7768 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cry, but, and help. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.