Be like
שָׁוָהStrong’s H7737shavah (sha-vah)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “have placed”, “compare” and “making”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet: and setteth me upon my high places.”
Meaning
- To agree with, be or become like, level, resemble(Qal) · (Piel) to level, smooth, still · (Hiphil) to make like · (Nithpael) to be alike
- (Piel) to set, place
How it's translated
- i have placed 3
- they compare 2
- making 1
- appropriate 1
- adequate 1
- equal 1
- it was equal 1
- made 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 6
- Proverbs 4
- Isaiah 4
- Esther 3
- 2 Samuel 1
- Job 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 3:8And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.
- Esther 5:13Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.
- Esther 7:4For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.
- Job 33:27He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
- Psalms 16:8I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
- Psalms 18:33He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁוָה shavah · be like
1) to agree with, be or become like, level, resemble 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be like 1a2) equivalent (participle) 1a3) to set, place 1a4) setting (participle) 1b) (Piel) to level, smooth, still 1c) (Hiphil) to make like 1d) (Nithpael) to be alike Aramaic equivalent: she.vah (שְׁוָה "be like" H7739A)
שָׁוָה shavah · to set
(Piel) to set, place Aramaic equivalent: she.vah (שְׁוָה "be set" H7739B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “compare” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COMPARE, verb transitive
- To set or bring things together in fact or in contemplation, and to examine the relations they bear to each other, with a view to ascertain their agreement or disagreement; as, to compare two pieces of cloth, two tables, or coins; to compare reasons and arguments; to compare pleasure with pain.
- To liken; to represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration.
- To examine the relations of thins to each other, with a view to discover their relative proportions, quantities or qualities; as, to compare two kingdoms, or two mountains with each other; to compare the number ten with fifteen; to compare ice with crystal; to compare a clown with a dancing master or a dandy.
- In grammar, to form an adjective in the degrees of comparison; as blackish, black, blacker, blackest.
All definitions and other forms of “compare”
- To get; to procure; to obtain; as in Latin.
COMPARE, verb intransitive
- To hold comparison; to be like or equal.
- Simile; similitude; illustration by comparison.
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.