shava · cry for help

What it means

shava (שָׁוַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cry for help”.

To cry out for help, to call aloud to be rescued.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To call out for aid, above all to God.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• cry for help ×8
• I cried for help ×4
• cried for help ×4
• call for help ×2
• calls for help ×1
• crying for help ×1
• who cries out ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Job×8
• Psalms×9
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Jonah×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Job 19:7

  Look, I cry out, ‘Violence,’ and I am not answered; I call for help, and there is no judgment.

• Job 24:12

  From the city men groan, and the soul of the wounded calls for help; yet Eloah does not count it as impropriety.

• Job 29:12

  because I rescued the poor crying for help, and the orphan, and the one who had no helper.

• Job 30:20

  I cry for help to you, and you do not answer me; I stand up, and you consider me.

• Job 30:28

  In mourning I go about without sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

• Job 35:9

  Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; they cry for help because of the arm of the great.

• Job 36:13

  And the godless in heart harbor anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.

• Job 38:41

  Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young cry for help to El and wander without food?

• Psalms 18:6

  In my distress I called on YHWH, and to my Elohim I cried for help; he heard from his temple my voice, and my cry before him came into his ears.

• Psalms 18:41

  They cried for help, but there was no savior; to YHWH, but he did not answer them.

• Psalms 22:24

  For he has not despised nor detested the affliction of the afflicted, nor has he hidden his face from him; and when he cried for help to him, he heard.

• Psalms 28:2

  Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry for help to you, when I lift my hands toward your holy inner sanctuary.

• Psalms 30:2

  YHWH my Elohim, I cried for help to you, and you healed me.

• Psalms 31:22

  And I said in my alarm, “I have been cut off from before your eyes.” But you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried for help to you.

• Psalms 72:12

  For he will deliver the needy who cries out, and the afflicted and him who has no helper.

• Psalms 88:13

  But I, to you, YHWH, have cried for help, and in the morning my prayer comes to meet you.

• Psalms 119:147

  I went ahead of the dawn and cried for help; your word I have awaited.

• Isaiah 58:9

  Then you will call, and YHWH will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove from your midst the yoke, the pointing of the finger and the speaking of wickedness,

• Lamentations 3:8

  Even when I cry out and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

• Jonah 2:2

  and he said, “I called out of my distress to YHWH, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol I cried for help, and you heard my voice.

• Habakkuk 1:2

  How long, YHWH, will I cry for help and you will not listen? I cry out to you, “Violence,” and you do not save.