Aramaic

Be like

שְׁוָהStrong’s H7739

shevah (she-vah)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Shevah is the Aramaic word usually translated “it will be made” and “made”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.”

Daniel 3:29 KJV

Meaning

(Pael) to become like
(Hithpael) to be set, be made

How it's translated

it will be made 1
they made 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Daniel 2

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 5:21In contextAnd he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.

Aramaic dictionary

שְׁוָה shevah · be like

(Pael) to become like Aramaic of sha.vah (שָׁוָה "be like" H7737A)

שְׁוָה shevah · be set

(Hithpael) to be set, be made Aramaic of sha.vah (שָׁוָה "to set" H7737B)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “made” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MADE, noun

An earthworm. [But this is the Eng.moth.]

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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.