שָׁוָהshâvâh/shaw-vaw'/
HebrewH773722 occurrences (KJV)
properly, to level, i.e. equalize; figuratively, to resemble; by implication, to adjust (i.e. counterbalance, be suitable, compose, place, yield, etc.)
KJV renders it: avail, behave, bring forth, compare, countervail, (be, make) equal, lay, be (make, a-) like, make plain, profit, reckon.
Where it appears(showing the first 21 of 22)
- 2 Sam 22:34He makes his feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me on my high places.
- Esth 3:8Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different than other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.
- Esth 5:13Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
- Esth 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 male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
- Job 33:27He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
- Ps 16:8I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
- Ps 18:33He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and sets me on my high places.
- Ps 21:5His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honor and majesty on him.
- Ps 89:19Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.
- Ps 119:30I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
- Ps 131:2Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
- Prov 3:15She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.
- Prov 8:11For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.
- Prov 26:4Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.
- Prov 27:15A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:
- Isa 28:25When he has leveled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?
- Isa 38:13I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
- Isa 40:25“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
- Isa 46:5“To whom will you liken me, and consider my equal, and compare me, that we may be equal?
- Lam 2:13What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?
- Hos 10:1Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.