שׁוֹעַshôwaʻ

שׁוֺעַ: (free), independent, noble (Isaiah 32:5; Job 34:19)

Pronunciation: sho'-ah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7771

Meanings

שׁוֺעַ: perhaps war-cry, or cry for help in war (Isaiah 22:5)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Job 34:19 He doesn’t care how great a person may be, and he pays no more attention to the rich than to the poor. He made them all.
  • Isaiah 22:5 Oh, what a day of crushing defeat! What a day of confusion and terror brought by the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, upon the Valley of Vision! The walls of Jerusalem have been broken, and cries of death echo from the mountainsides.
  • Isaiah 32:5 In that day ungodly fools will not be heroes. Scoundrels will not be respected.

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).