shava · make like, set

What it means

shava (שָׁוָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “make like, set”.

To make level, to make one thing like another; also to put, to place. Hence "to make the feet like those of the does."

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 match, have the same value.
2. To make like something.
3. To put something in a place, for example before oneself.
4. To calm the soul.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• I have set ×3
• compare ×3
• He makes ×2
• worth ×2
• I calmed myself ×1
• I have calmed ×1
• I should be equal to him ×1
• are alike ×1
• he has leveled ×1
• he produces ×1
• others ×5

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• Esther×3
• Job×1
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×4
• Isaiah×4
• Lamentations×1
• Hosea×1

• 2 Samuel 22:34

  He makes my feet like those of the deer, and on my high places he sets me.

• Esther 3:8

  And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and separated among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from those of every people, and the king’s laws they do not keep; and for the king it is not worthwhile to leave them alone.

• Esther 5:13

  Yet all this is not worth anything to me every time that I see Mordecai the Jew sitting in the king’s gate.”

• Esther 7:4

  For we have been sold, I and my people, to destroy, to kill, and to make perish. And if we had been sold as male slaves and female slaves, I would have kept silent, for the adversary is not worth the harm to the king.”

• Job 33:27

  He looks upon men and says, ‘I have sinned, and what is right I have perverted, and it was not repaid to me.’

• Psalms 16:8

  I have set YHWH before me always; because he is at my right hand, I will not be moved.

• Psalms 18:33

  He makes my feet like those of the deer, and on my high places he makes me stand.

• Psalms 21:5

  Great is his glory through your salvation; splendor and majesty you place upon him.

• Psalms 89:19

  Then you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones, and said, “I have set help upon a mighty man; I have exalted one chosen from the people.

• Psalms 119:30

  The way of faithfulness I have chosen; your rules I have set before me.

• Psalms 131:2

  Rather, I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like the weaned child within me is my soul.

• Proverbs 3:15

  She is more precious than pearls, and all that you desire cannot compare with her.

• Proverbs 8:11

  For wisdom is better than pearls, and all things desired cannot compare with her.

• Proverbs 26:4

  Do not answer a senseless man according to his folly, lest you become like him yourself also.

• Proverbs 27:15

  A continual dripping on a day of downpour and a woman of quarrels are alike;

• Isaiah 28:25

  Is it not that, when he has leveled its surface, he scatters black cumin and throws cumin, and puts wheat in rows and barley in its marked place and spelt at its border?

• Isaiah 38:13

  I calmed myself until morning; like a lion, so he breaks all my bones; from day to night you will make an end of me.

• Isaiah 40:25

  “And to whom will you liken me, that I should be equal to him?” says the Holy One.

• Isaiah 46:5

  To whom will you liken me and make me equal and compare me, that we may be alike?

• Lamentations 2:13

  What shall I cite as witness for you? What shall I liken to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you so that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For great as the sea is your shattering; who can heal you?

• Hosea 10:1

  Israel is a luxuriant vine; he produces fruit for himself; according to the abundance of his fruit, he has multiplied the altars; according to the goodness of his land, they have improved the standing stones.