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title: שׁוֹעַ — free · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שׁוֹעַ (7771), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: free. BDB 1906: adj. free independent, noble n.pr.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שׁוֹעַ

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«שׁוֹעַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **free** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 7771 · **BDB:** שׁוֹעַ

### Glosses

a.noble.person (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

free [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7771/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. free independent, noble n.pr.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7771/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. (free), independent, noble (in station) (according to most from second √ שׁוע = ישׁע, in sense of Arabic وَسِع (cf. תְּשׁוּעָה infr.); but actual existence of such a √ not proven; Thes allows שׁוֹעַ = יְשׁוֹעַ)—noble, of rank (and, by implic., of character) Is 32:5 (‖ נָדִיב, opp. כִּילַי), Jb 34:19 (Di al. rich, but ‖ שָׂרִים, opp. דַּל).—ii. שׁוֹעַ Is 22:5, v. sub \[שָׁוַע\]. iii. שׁוֹעַ n.pr.gent. Ez 23:23, v. שׁ׳.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שׁוֹעַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7771/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 32:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.5/)

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לֹֽא־יִקָּרֵ֥א ע֛וֹד לְנָבָ֖ל נָדִ֑יב וּלְכִילַ֕י לֹ֥א יֵֽאָמֵ֖ר שֽׁוֹעַ׃

*Word for word:* not it.will.be.called again to a.fool noble and of a.scoundrel not it.will.be.said a.noble.person

*JPS 1917:* The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be noble.

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[Job 34:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.19/)

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אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא־נָשָׂ֨א ׀ פְּנֵ֥י שָׂרִ֗ים וְלֹ֣א נִכַּר־שׁ֭וֹעַלִפְנֵי־דָ֑ל כִּֽי־מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה יָדָ֣יו כֻּלָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* who not he.lifts.up \[the\].faces of.princes and not he.regards a.noble.person before a.poor.\[person\] (dm) \[are.the\].work his.hands his of.them all

*JPS 1917:* That respecteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? For they all are the work of His hands.

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