Limitless Word
שָׁוַעshâvaʻ/shaw-vah'/
HebrewH776821 occurrences (KJV)

properly, to be free; but used only causatively and reflexively, to halloo (for help, i.e. freedom from some trouble)

KJV renders it: cry (aloud, out), shout.

Where it appears

  • Job 19:7“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
  • Job 24:12From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
  • Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
  • Job 30:20I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
  • Job 30:28I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
  • Job 35:9“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
  • Job 36:13“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
  • Job 38:41Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
  • Ps 18:6In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
  • Ps 18:41They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
  • Ps 22:24For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
  • Ps 28:2Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
  • Ps 30:2Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
  • Ps 31:22As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
  • Ps 72:12For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
  • Ps 88:13But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
  • Ps 119:147I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.
  • Isa 58:9Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
  • Lam 3:8Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
  • Jonah 2:2He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
  • Hab 1:2Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.