שָׁוָה
sha.vah
be like
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Occurrences in Scripture
14 total occurrences across the text
Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.
Esther 5:13Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
Esther 7:4For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
Job 33:27He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
Psalms 119:30I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
Psalms 131:2Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
Proverbs 3:15She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.
Proverbs 8:11For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.
Proverbs 26:4Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.
Proverbs 27:15A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:
Isaiah 28:25When he has leveled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?
Isaiah 40:25“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
Isaiah 46:5“To whom will you compare me, and consider my equal, and compare me, as if we were the same?
Lamentations 2:13What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?