Cry
שַׁוְעָהStrong’s H7775shavah (shav-ah)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “cry for help my”, “cry for help their” and “cry for help of”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.”
Meaning
- Cry for help
How it's translated
- and cry for help my 4
- cry for help their 3
- cry for help of 2
- cry for help my 1
- to cry for help my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 6
- Exodus 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Lamentations 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 5:12And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
- 2 Samuel 22:7In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
- Psalms 18:6In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
- Psalms 34:15The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
- Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
- Psalms 40:1I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁוְעָה shavah · cry
cry for help
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cry” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CRY, verb intransitive
preterit tense and participle passive cried. It ought to be cryed.
- To utter a loud voice; to speak, call or exclaim with vehemence; in a very general sense.
- To call importunately; to utter a loud voice, by way of earnest request of prayer.“The people cried to Pharaoh for bread” Genesis 41:55“The people cried to Moses, and he prayed” Numbers 11:2
- To utter a loud voice in weeping; to utter the voice of sorrow; to lament.“But ye shall cry for sorrow of heart” Isaiah 65:14“Esau cried with a great and bitter cry” Genesis 27:34
- To utter a loud sound in distress; as, Heshbon shall cry Isaiah 15:4“He giveth food to the young raves which cry” Psalms 147:9
All definitions and other forms of “cry”
- To exclaim; to utter a loud voice; with out.“And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out” Luke 9:39
- To proclaim; to utter a loud voice, in giving public notice.“Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem” Jeremiah 2:2
- To bawl; to squall; as a child.
- To yelp, as a dog.“Arise, go to Nineveh, and cry against it” Jonah 1:2
CRY, verb transitive
- To proclaim; to name loudly and publicly for giving notice; as, to cry goods; to cry a lost a child.
- To decry; to depreciate by words or in writing; to dispraise; to condemn.
- To overbear.
- To praise; to applaud; to extol; as, to cry up a mans talents or patriotism, or a womans beauty; to cry up the administration.
- To raise the price by proclamation; as, to cry up certain coins. [Not in use.]
CRY, noun
plural cries.
- In a general sense, a loud sound uttered by the mouth of an animal; applicable to the voice of man or beast, and articulate or inarticulate.
- A loud or vehement sound, uttered in weeping, or lamentation; it may be a shriek or scream.“And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt” Exodus 11:6
- Clamor; outcry; as, war, war, is the public cry“And there arose a great cry” Acts 23:9
- Exclamations of triumph, or wonder, or of other passion.
- Proclamation; public notice.“At midnight there was a cry made” Matthew 25:6
- The notices of hawkers of wares to be sold int he street are called cries; as the cries of London.
- Acclamation; expression of popular favor.
- A loud voice in distress, prayer or request; importunate call.“There was a great cry in Egypt” Exodus 12:30
- Public reports or complaints; noise; fame.
- Bitter complaints of oppression and injustice.
- The sound or voice of irrational animals; expression of joy, fright, alarm, or want; as the cries of fowls, the yell or yelping of dogs, etc.
- A pack of dogs.
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.