Strong's #7737: shavah (pronounced shaw-vaw')
a primitive root; properly, to level, i.e. equalize; figuratively, to resemble; by implication, to adjust (i.e. counterbalance, be suitable, compose, place, yield, etc.):--avail, behave, bring forth, compare, countervail, (be, make) equal, lay, be (make, a- )like, make plain, profit, reckon.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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shâvâh
1) to agree with, be or become like, level, resemble
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be like
1a2) equivalent (participle)
1a3) to set, place
1a4) setting (participle)
1b) (Piel) to level, smooth, still
1c) (Hiphil) to make like
1d) (Nithpael) to be alike
2) (Piel) to set, place
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2342, 2343
Usage:
This word is used 21 times:
2 Samuel 22:34: " He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places."
Esther 3:8: "they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer"
Esther 5:13: "Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see"
Esther 7:4: "although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage."
Job 33:27: "I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;"
Psalms 16:8: " I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not"
Psalms 18:33: " He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places."
Psalms 21:5: "in thy salvation: honor and majesty hast thou laid upon"
Psalms 89:19: "in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted"
Psalms 119:30: "the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid"
Psalms 131:2: "Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother:"
Proverbs 3:15: "than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared"
Proverbs 8:11: "than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared"
Proverbs 26:4: "lest thou also be like"
Proverbs 27:15: "day and a contentious woman are alike."
Isaiah 28:25: "When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin,"
Isaiah 38:13: " I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones:"
Isaiah 40:25: "To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One."
Isaiah 46:5: "To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?"
Lamentations 2:13: "to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion?"
Hosea 10:1: "Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased"
