Lexical Summary shua: Wealth, opulence, or cry for help Original Word: שׁוּעַ Strong's Exhaustive Concordance cry, riches From shava'; a halloo -- cry, riches. see HEBREW shava' NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom shava Definition a cry for help NASB Translation cry out for help (1). Brown-Driver-Briggs II. שׁוּעַ noun [masculine] opulence ? (compare Arabic  ) — so AE and others Job 30:24; Job 36:19; but < see below [שָׁוַע] I. שׁוּעַ, [שֶׁוַע?] noun masculine cry for help; — ׳לֶהֶן שׁ Job 30:24 (Bi Di Bu Du לֹא יְשַׁוֵּ֑עַ); שׁוּעֲךָ Job 36:19 (Bu Buhl שַׁוְעֲךָ, Du שִׂיחֲךָ). — I. שׁוּעַ. Topical Lexicon Semantic Scope and Key Idea שׁוּעַ conveys an urgent appeal for rescue—a cry that acknowledges personal inability and casts oneself upon a stronger deliverer. The noun grows out of the verb “to cry for help,” and therefore carries an overtone of both desperation and dependence. In Job, the word becomes a lens through which the wider testimony of Scripture views the human condition and the sufficiency of God’s salvation. Occurrences in Job Job 30:24 depicts the socially abandoned sufferer: “Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.” Here שׁוּעַ highlights the tragedy of indifference; humanity’s neglect throws the sufferer back upon the mercy of God alone. Job 36:19 poses a searching question: “Would your wealth or even all your mighty efforts sustain you, so that you would not be in distress?” The same Hebrew term is set in contrast to material resources, exposing the futility of self-reliance. When calamity strikes, neither riches nor prowess substitute for the earnest cry that God alone can answer. Theological Themes 1. Human Impotence. Both contexts underline that circumstances arise in which no earthly remedy can prevail. שׁוּעַ embodies the humbled posture that Scripture repeatedly commends (Psalm 40:17; Jonah 2:2). Intertextual Echoes The noun stands beside verb-forms in Psalm 72:12, “For he will deliver the needy who cry out,” and is conceptually linked with “groaning” in Exodus 2:23–24. The pattern—desperate petition met by divine intervention—threads through the Exodus, the Psalms, and the ministry of Jesus Christ, who repeatedly answered cries for mercy (Mark 10:47–52). Pastoral and Homiletical Insights • Encourage congregations to voice their need honestly; biblical faith does not silence anguish but sanctifies it. Christological Fulfillment Jesus embodies both the Sufferer who “offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries” (Hebrews 5:7) and the Savior who hears and heals. At the cross He assumes humanity’s most desperate שׁוּעַ and, in resurrection, supplies the decisive divine answer, guaranteeing that every believing cry will finally be met with life. Applications for Prayer and Worship • Integrate laments and petitions into corporate worship to reflect the full biblical spectrum of prayer. Summary שׁוּעַ crystallizes the moment when human extremity meets divine sufficiency. Whether ignored by men or beyond the aid of riches, the cry for help is never wasted when directed toward the Lord who “is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth” (Psalm 145:18). Forms and Transliterations שֽׁוּעַ׃ שׁ֭וּעֲךָ שוע׃ שועך Shua Shuacha šū‘ăḵā šū·‘ă·ḵā šū·a‘ šūa‘Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Job 30:24 HEB: בְּ֝פִיד֗וֹ לָהֶ֥ן שֽׁוּעַ׃ NAS: therefore cry out for help? KJV: to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. INT: his disaster but cry Job 36:19 2 Occurrences |
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