{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H7768",
  "lemma": "שָׁוַע",
  "transliteration": "shâvaʻ",
  "definition": "properly, to be free; but used only causatively and reflexively, to halloo (for help, i.e. freedom from some trouble)",
  "kjv": "cry (aloud, out), shout.",
  "occurrences": 21,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[שָׁוַע] vb. Pi. cry out for help"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 58:9",
      "text": "Then you will call, and the LORD will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/58?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jonah 2:3",
      "text": "He said, “I called because of my affliction to the LORD. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jonah/2?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Habakkuk 1:2",
      "text": "LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/habakkuk/1?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 18:7",
      "text": "In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/18?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 18:42",
      "text": "They cried, but there was no one to save; even to the LORD, but he didn’t answer them.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/18?v=42"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 22:25",
      "text": "For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hidden his face from him; but when…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/22?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 28:2",
      "text": "Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/28?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 30:3",
      "text": "LORD my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/30?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 31:23",
      "text": "As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/31?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 72:12",
      "text": "For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/72?v=12"
    }
  ],
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