King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7771
Transliteration: showa'
Phonetic Spelling: (sho'-ah)
Part of Speech: Adjective; proper name, of a people; noun masculine
Short Definition: independent, noble (in station)
Meaning: a noble, liberal, opulent, a halloo
Word Summary
showa': independent, noble (in station)
Original Word: שׁוֹעַTransliteration: showa'
Phonetic Spelling: (sho'-ah)
Part of Speech: Adjective; proper name, of a people; noun masculine
Short Definition: independent, noble (in station)
Meaning: a noble, liberal, opulent, a halloo
Strong's Concordance
bountiful, crying, rich From shava' in the original sense of freedom; a noble, i.e. Liberal, opulent; also (as noun in the derived sense) a halloo -- bountiful, crying, rich.
see HEBREW shava'
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7771. showa
' I. שׁוֺעַ adjective (free), idependent, noble (in station) (according to most from second. √ שׁוע = ישׁע in sense of Arabic (compare תְּשׁוּעָה below); but actual existence of such a √ not proven; Thes allows שׁוֺעַ = יְשׁוֺעַ) — noble, of rank (and, by implication, of character) Isaiah 32:5 ("" נָדִיב opposed to כִּילַי), Job 34:19 (Di and others rich, but "" שָׂרִים opposed to דַּל). —
II. שׁוֺעַ Isaiah 22:5, see below [שָׁוַע].
III. שׁוֺעַ
proper name, of a people Ezekiel 23:23, see ׳שׁ
II. שׁוֺעַ noun [masculine] cry, perhaps war-cry, or cry for help in war Isaiah 22:5. — I.שׁוֺעֵ see ישׁע.