# שָׁוַע (shava)

Israeli respelling: sha-va. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7768. 21 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, to be free; but used only causatively and reflexively, to halloo (for help, i.e. freedom from some trouble)

King James renderings: cry (aloud, out), shout.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shava-h7768

## Occurrences

- [Job 19:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/7) — Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
- [Job 24:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/12) — Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
- [Job 29:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/12) — Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
- [Job 30:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/20) — I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
- [Job 30:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/28) — I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
- [Job 35:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/35/9) — By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
- [Job 36:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/13) — But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
- [Job 38:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/41) — Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
- [Psalms 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/6) — 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 hi…
- [Psalms 18:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/41) — They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
- [Psalms 22:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/22/24) — 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, h…
- [Psalms 28:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/28/2) — Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
- [Psalms 30:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/30/2) — O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
- [Psalms 31:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/31/22) — 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 the…
- [Psalms 72:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/72/12) — For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
- [Psalms 88:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/88/13) — But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
- [Psalms 119:147](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/147) — I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
- [Isaiah 58:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/9) — 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…
- [Lamentations 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/8) — Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
- [Jonah 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/2/2) — 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.
- [Habakkuk 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/1/2) — O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!