# H7768 שָׁוַע

שָׁוַע (shâvaʻ), Strong’s H7768: 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.. Occurs 21 times.

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*shâvaʻ* — 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.

Occurs 21 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [שָׁוַע] vb. Pi. cry out for help

## Where it occurs
- [Isaiah 58:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/58?v=9) — 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…
- [Jonah 2:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jonah/2?v=3) — He said, “I called because of my affliction to the LORD. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard…
- [Habakkuk 1:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/habakkuk/1?v=2) — LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
- [Psalms 18:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/18?v=7) — 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…
- [Psalms 18:42](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/18?v=42) — They cried, but there was no one to save; even to the LORD, but he didn’t answer them.
- [Psalms 22:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/22?v=25) — For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hidden his face from him; but when…
- [Psalms 28:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/28?v=2) — Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
- [Psalms 30:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/30?v=3) — LORD my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
- [Psalms 31:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/31?v=23) — As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions…
- [Psalms 72:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/72?v=12) — For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.