Strong's Hebrew: 7768. שָׁוַע (shava) -- to cry out (for help)

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Lexicon

shava: to cry out (for help)

Original Word: שָׁוַע
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: shava
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-vah')
Short Definition: cry

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to cry out (for help)
NASB Translation
call for help (2), cried (3), cried for help (3), cried to him for help (1), cried to you for help (1), cries for help (1), cry (5), cry for help (3), cry out for help (1), cry to you for help (1), help (3), shout for help (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[שָׁוַע] verb Pi`el cry out for help (Gerb³³ thinks denominative from שֵׁוְעָה, and this from √ akin to ישׁע deliver); — Perfect1singular שִׁוַּעְתִּי Psalm 30:3 3t.; Imperfect3feminine singular תְּשַׁוֵּ֑עַ Job 24:12; 2masculine singular תְּשַׁוַּע Isaiah 58:9, etc.; Infinitive construct suffix שַׁוְּעִי Psalm 28:2; Psalm 31:23; שַׁוְעִי Psalm 5:3 (Ol^{§ 182 d}), etc.; Participle מְשַׁוֵּ֑עַ Psalm 72:12; Job 29:12; — cry for help: absolute Psalm 72:12; Job 19:7; Job 24:12; Job 29:12; Job 30:28; Job 35:9, + Isaiah 38:13 Houb Lo Che Du and others (for שִׁוִּיתִי); specifically to God Psalm 5:3; Psalm 18:42; Psalm 119:147; Job 36:13; Isaiah 58:9; Jonah 2:3; Habakkuk 1:2; Lamentations 3:8; with אל Psalm 18:7; Psalm 22:25; Psalm 28:2 = Psalm 31:23; Psalm 30:3; Psalm 88:14 + Psalm 31:2 (read with Weir אֱלֹהַי שִׁוַּעְתִּי יוֺם צַעֲקָתִי), Job 30:20; Job 38:41.

Strong's

cry aloud, out, shout

A primitive root; properly, to be free; but used only causatively and reflexively, to halloo (for help, i.e. Freedom from some trouble) -- cry (aloud, out), shout.