שָׁוַע shâvaʻ

Meaning

properly, to be free; but used only causatively and reflexively, to halloo (for help, i.e. freedom from some trouble)

In the King James Version: cry (aloud, out), shout.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Job 19:7 Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
• Job 24:12 From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
• Job 29:12 because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
• Job 30:20 I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
• Job 30:28 I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
• Job 35:9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
• Job 36:13 The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help.
• Job 38:41 Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
• Psalms 18:6 In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.
• Psalms 18:41 They cried for help, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but He did not answer.
• Psalms 22:24 For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.
• Psalms 28:2 Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
• Psalms 30:2 O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.
• Psalms 31:22 In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
• Psalms 72:12 For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
• Psalms 88:13 But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
• Psalms 119:147 I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.
• Isaiah 58:9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and malicious talk,
• Lamentations 3:8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
• Jonah 2:2 saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.
• Habakkuk 1:2 How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?