# שָׁוָה (shavah)

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

Strong’s H7737. 21 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, to level, i.e. equalize; figuratively, to resemble; by implication, to adjust (i.e. counterbalance, be suitable, compose, place, yield, etc.)

King James renderings: avail, behave, bring forth, compare, countervail, (be, make) equal, lay, be (make, a-) like, make plain, profit, reckon.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shavah-h7737

## Occurrences

- [2 Samuel 22:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/34) — He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
- [Esther 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/3/8) — And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy k…
- [Esther 5:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/5/13) — Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.
- [Esther 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/7/4) — For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had hel…
- [Job 33:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/27) — He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
- [Psalms 16:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/16/8) — I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
- [Psalms 18:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/33) — He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
- [Psalms 21:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/21/5) — His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
- [Psalms 89:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/19) — Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the peo…
- [Psalms 119:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/30) — I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
- [Psalms 131:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/131/2) — Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
- [Proverbs 3:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/15) — She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
- [Proverbs 8:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/11) — For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
- [Proverbs 26:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/4) — Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
- [Proverbs 27:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/27/15) — A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
- [Isaiah 28:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/28/25) — When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and…
- [Isaiah 38:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/38/13) — I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- [Isaiah 40:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/25) — To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
- [Isaiah 46:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/46/5) — To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
- [Lamentations 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/13) — What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I…
- [Hosea 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/10/1) — Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; accord…