שׁוּעַShûwaʻ
proper name, masculine: father of Judah's wife (Genesis 38:2; Genesis 38:12; 1 Chronicles 2:3; 1 Chronicles 4:6)
Pronunciation: shoo'-ah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7770
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 38:2 There he saw a Canaanite woman, the daughter of Shua, and he married her. When he slept with her,
- Genesis 38:12 Some years later Judah’s wife died. After the time of mourning was over, Judah and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to Timnah to supervise the shearing of his sheep.
- 1 Chronicles 2:3 Judah had three sons from Bathshua, a Canaanite woman. Their names were Er, Onan, and Shelah. But the Lord saw that the oldest son, Er, was a wicked man, so he killed him.
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).