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title: שׁוֹעַ — free · The Tanakh dictionary
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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 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:שׁוֹעַ · **BDB:** שׁוֹעַ

### Glosses

crying.out (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. free independent, noble n.pr.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c1_5d5_5b9_5e2_5b7/#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, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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/lemma_3a_5e9_5c1_5d5_5b9_5e2_5b7/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 22:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.5/)

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כִּ֣י יוֹם֩ מְהוּמָ֨ה וּמְבוּסָ֜ה וּמְבוּכָ֗ה לַֽאדֹנָ֧י יְהוִ֛ה צְבָא֖וֹת בְּגֵ֣יא חִזָּי֑וֹן מְקַרְקַ֥ר קִ֖ר וְשׁ֥וֹעַ אֶל־הָהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* (dm) a.day of.panic and trampling and confusion \[belongs\].to \[the\] Lord Yahweh of.hosts in.\[the\] valley of.vision breaking.down a.wall and crying.out to the mountain

*JPS 1917:* For it is a day of trouble, and of trampling, and of perplexity, from the Lord, the GOD of hosts, in the Valley of Vision; Kir shouting, and Shoa at the mount.

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