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title: שׁוֹא — ravage · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שׁוֹא (7722), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: ravage. BDB 1906: ravage. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שׁוֹא

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«שׁוֹא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **ravage** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7722 · **BDB:** שׁוֹא

### Glosses

ravages (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

ravage [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7722/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

ravage [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7722/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] ravage (?);—pl. sf. שֹׁאֵיהֶם ψ 35:17 rescue me from their ravages (si vera l.); 𝔊 κακουργία; Ol Dy Gr CheComm. plausibly שַׁאֲגָם their roaring, cf. v 16, 17c; We Du שֹׁאֲגִים.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שׁוֹא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7722/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 35:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.35.17/)

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אֲדֹנָי֮ כַּמָּ֪ה תִּ֫רְאֶ֥ה הָשִׁ֣יבָה נַ֭פְשִׁי מִשֹּׁאֵיהֶ֑ם מִ֝כְּפִירִ֗ים יְחִידָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* Lord my how long? will.you.look bring back life my from ravages their from young.lions my.only \[life\]

*JPS 1917:* Lord, how long wilt Thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, mine only one from the lions.

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