H7737 שָׁוָה
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 22 KJV occurrences
שָׁוָה
shâvâh · shaw-vaw'
Definition
properly, to level, i.e. equalize; figuratively, to resemble; by implication, to adjust (i.e. counterbalance, be suitable, compose, place, yield, etc.)
KJV Renderings
avail, behave, bring forth, compare, countervail, (be, make) equal, lay, be (make, a-) like, make plain, profit, reckon.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 22)
- 2 Samuel 22:34He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
- 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 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.
- Job 33:27He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
- Psalms 21:5His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
- 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.
- Proverbs 8:11For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
- 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?
- Isaiah 46:5¶ To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?