שָׁוָהshâvâh

שָׁוָה: be even, smooth, agree with, be like, resemble

Pronunciation: shaw-vaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7737

Meanings

Qal: it was not equalled to me, not requited (Job 33:27; Isaiah 16:6; Isaiah 40:25)

Pi`el: he hath levelled, I have smoothed (Isaiah 28:25; Psalms 131:2; Isaiah 38:13)

Hiph`il: make like (Lamentations 2:13; Isaiah 46:5; Isaiah 40:25)

Nithp.: (apparently), are alike, but read probably Niph`al 3 feminine singular נִשְׁוָ֑תָה (Proverbs 27:15; Job 30:22)

שָׁוָה: Pi`el: set, place (Psalms 16:8; Psalms 89:20; Psalms 21:6)

שָׁוָה: become like

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 21 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Samuel 22:34 He makes me as surefooted as a deer, enabling me to stand on mountain heights.
  • Esther 3:8 Then Haman approached King Xerxes and said, “There is a certain race of people scattered through all the provinces of your empire who keep themselves separate from everyone else. Their laws are different from those of any other people, and they refuse to obey the laws of the king. So it is not in the king’s interest to let them live.
  • Esther 5:13 Then he added, “But this is all worth nothing as long as I see Mordecai the Jew just sitting there at the palace gate.”
  • Esther 7:4 For my people and I have been sold to those who would kill, slaughter, and annihilate us. If we had merely been sold as slaves, I could remain quiet, for that would be too trivial a matter to warrant disturbing the king.”
  • Job 33:27 He will declare to his friends, ‘I sinned and twisted the truth, but it was not worth it.
  • Psalms 16:8 I know the Lord is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).