1. cry for help, outcry — The feminine noun shav'ah designating a cry for help or an outcry of distress directed toward God or arising from oppression. It appears in psalms of lament (Ps 18:7, 34:16, 39:13, 40:2, 72:12, 88:3, 102:2) and in narratives of communal suffering (Exod 2:23, 2 Sam 22:7, 2 Chr 20:9). All three sense clusters express the same core meaning of an anguished cry/appeal, differing only in pronominal suffixes and syntactic role: first person singular 'my cry' (6x), third person masculine plural 'their cry' (3x), and bare construct 'the cry of' (2x). Multilingual translations uniformly confirm a single meaning: Spanish 'clamor,' Arabic 'surakh/sarkha,' Hindi 'pukar/chillaahat/chikh,' Korean 'bureu-jijeum,' Swahili 'kilio.' The possessive and prepositional variation is grammatical, not semantic. 11×
AR["صَرْخَةُ","صَرْخَتُهُمْ","صُراخي","صُراخِهِم","صُرَاخَهُمْ","صُرَاخِ","لِاسْتِغَاثَتِي","وَ-صُراخي","وَاسْتِغَاثَتِي","وَصُراخي","وَصُرَاخِي"]·ben["আমার-কাঁদা","আমার-চিৎকারের-জন্য","এবং-আমার-কান্না","ও-আমার-কাঁদা","ক্রন্দনের","চিৎকার","তাদের-কাঁদা","তাদের-কান্না"]·DE["[לשועתי]","[שועת]","ihr-schreien","mein-schreien","schreie-von","und-mein-schreie","und-mein-schreien","und-mein-schreien-für-helfen"]·EN["and-my-cry","and-my-cry-for-help","cry-of","my-cry","the-cry-of","their-cry","to-my-cry-for-help"]·FR["[לשועתי]","[שועת]","cri","crie-de","et-cri","et-mon-crie","leur-cri"]·heb["ו-שוועת-י","ו-שוועתי","ל-שוועתי","שוועת","שוועת-י","שוועת-ם","שוועתם"]·HI["उनकी-दुहाई","और-पुकार-मेरी","और-मेरी-दुहाई","और-मेरी-पुकार","चिल्लाहट-उनकी","चिल्लाहट-की","चीख","पुकार-उनकी","पुकार-मेरी","मेरी-पुकार-के-लिए"]·ID["dan-seruan-ku","dan-teriakan-minta-tolongku","dan-teriakanku","dari-teriakanku","jeritan","seruan-mereka","teriakan"]·IT["e-il-mio-grido","e-mio-grida","grida-di","grido","il-loro-grido","il-mio-grido","loro-gridare"]·jav["kangge-sesambat-kawula","lan-panyambat-kula","lan-pasambat-kula","pasambat-kula","pasambat-tiyang-punika","saha-pasambat-kula","sasambat-ipun","sesambat","sesambatipun","tangisan"]·KO["그들-의-부르짖음","그들의-부르짖음을","그리고-나-의-부르짖음-이","그리고-나의-부르짐이","그리고-내-부르짖음-을","그리고-부르짖음-이","내-부르짖음-에서","내-부르짖음-을","부르짖음이","에게-그-하나님에게"]·PT["clamor-de","clamor-deles","e-meu-clamor","meu-clamor","seu-clamor","à-minha-súplica"]·RU["вопль","вопль-их","вопль-мой","вопля","и-вопль-мой","крику-моему"]·ES["a-mi-clamor","clamor-de","el-clamor-de","mi-clamor","su-clamor","y-mi-clamor"]·SW["kilio","kilio-changu","kilio-chao","kwa-kilio-changu-cha-msaada","na-kilio-changu","ya-kilio-cha"]·TR["feryadları","feryadımı","feryatlarına","feryatlarını","feryatı","haykırışları","ve-feryadım","ve-feryadıma","ve-yalvarışım","çığlığım-için"]·urd["اور-میری-فریاد","اُن-کی-فریاد","اُن-کی-فریاد-کے","فریاد","فریاد-ان-کی","فریاد-کی","میری-فریاد","میری-فریاد-سے"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [שַׁוְעָה] n.f. cry for help;—cstr. שַׁוְעַת 1 S 5:12; Je 8:19; sf. שַׁוְעָתִי 2 S 22:7 = ψ 18:7, ψ 39:13; 40:2; 102:2; La 3:56 (gloss on רוחתי Ew al.); שַׁוְעָתָם Ex 2:23 (P), ψ 34:16; 145:19.