Cloud of WitnessesBeta
3 witnesses

Strong’s H7737 · Hebrew

שָׁוָה

shâvâh · shaw-vaw'

Origin a primitive root;

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

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

In 21 verses of the King James Version

  1. 2 Samuel 22:34He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
  2. Esther 3:8And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.
  3. Esther 5:13Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.
  4. Esther 7:4For 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 held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.
  5. Job 33:27He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
  6. Psalms 16:8I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
  7. Psalms 18:33He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
  8. Psalms 21:5His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
  9. Psalms 89:19Then 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 people.
  10. Psalms 119:30I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
  11. Psalms 131:2Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
  12. Proverbs 3:15She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
  13. Proverbs 8:11For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
  14. Proverbs 26:4Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
  15. Proverbs 27:15A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
  16. Isaiah 28:25When 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 the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
  17. Isaiah 38:13I 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.
  18. Isaiah 40:25To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
  19. Isaiah 46:5To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
  20. Lamentations 2:13What 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 may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
  21. Hosea 10:1Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

שָׁוָה (H7737) · Strong’s · Cloud of Witnesses