To show
חֲוָהStrong’s H2331chavah (cha-vah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “tell”, “tell you” and “from telling”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;”
Meaning
- To show, interpret, explain, inform, tell, declare(Pael) to show, interpret · (Aphel) to show
How it's translated
- i will tell 2
- i will tell you 1
- from telling 1
- so i may show you 1
- it shows forth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 5
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 32:6And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.
- Job 32:10Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.
- Job 32:17I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.
- Job 36:2Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.
- Psalms 19:2Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Hebrew dictionary
חֲוָה chavah · to show
1) to show, interpret, explain, inform, tell, declare 1a) (Pael) to show, interpret 1b) (Aphel) to show
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “show” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHOW, verb transitive
preterit tense showed; participle passive shown or showed. It is sometimes written shew, shewed, shewn. [If the radical letter lost was a labial, show coincides with the Gr.]
- To exhibit or present to the view of others.
- To afford to the eye or to notice; to contain in a visible form.
- To make or enable to see.
- To make or enable to perceive.
All definitions and other forms of “show”
- To make to know; to cause to understand; to make known; to teach or inform.
- To prove; to manifest.
- T oinform; to teach; with of.“The time cometh when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father” John 16:25
- To point out, as a guide.
- To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor or mercy on any person.
- To prove by evidence, testimony or authentic registers or documents.“They could not show their father's house” Ezra 2:59
- To disclose; to make known.“I durst not show mine opinion” Job 32:6
- To discover; to explain; as, to show a dream or interpretation.
SHOW, verb intransitive
- To appear; to look; to be in appearance.
- To have appearance; to become or suit well or ill.
SHOW, noun
- Superficial appearance; not reality.
- A spectacle; something offered to view for money.
- Ostentatious display or parade.
- Appearance as an object of notice.
- Public appearance, in distinction of concealment; as an open show.
- Semblance; likeness.
- Seciousness; plausibility.
- External appearance.
- Exhibition in view; as a show o fcattle, or cattle-show.
- Pomp; magnificent spectacle.
- A phantom; as a fairy show.
- Representative action; as a dumb show.
- External appearance; hypocritical pretense.“Who devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers” Luke 20:47
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.