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HebrewH7770Proper Noun (Masculine)

שׁוּעַ

shu.a

3Occurrences
H7770Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Shua, a Canaanite

the same as H7769 (שׁוּעַ);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; father of: Bath-shua (H1323I) Also named: shu.a (*שׁוּעָא *"Shua" H7774H) § Shuah = "wealth" father of Judah's wife

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

שׁוּעַ appears 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
2
1 Chronicles
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 2:3BSB

The sons of Judah:Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, who put him to death.

Genesis 38:2BSB

There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her.

Genesis 38:12BSB

After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.