H7737A–שָׁוָה–sha.vah

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 diverse from [supplied: those of] every people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to allow them.

שֹׁוֶ֖ה sho.Veh “[is] appropriate”

Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

שֹׁוֶ֖ה sho.Veh “[is] adequate”

for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.

שֹׁוֶ֖ה sho.Veh “[is] equal”

He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it didn't profit me.

שָׁ֥וָה Sha.vah “it was equal”

I have chosen the way of truth. I have set my heart on your law.

שִׁוִּֽיתִי׃ shi.Vi.ti “I have placed”

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, Like a weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

שִׁוִּ֨יתִי׀ shi.Vi.ti “I have made still”

She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

יִֽשְׁווּ־ yish.vu- “they compare”

For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can't be compared to it.

יִֽשְׁווּ־ yish.vu- “they compare”

Don't answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him.

תִּשְׁוֶה־ tish.veh- “you should become like”

A continual dropping on a rainy day And a contentious wife are alike:

נִשְׁתָּוָֽה׃ nish.ta.Vah “she is like”

When he has leveled the surface of it, doesn't he cast abroad the dill, and scatter the cumin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border of it?

שִׁוָּ֣ה shi.Vah “he has leveled”

To whom then will you liken me, that I should be equal [supplied: to him]? says the Holy One.

וְאֶשְׁוֶ֑ה (אֶשְׁוֶ֑ה) 'esh.Veh “I may be equal?”

To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

וְתַשְׁו֑וּ (תַשְׁו֑וּ) tash.Vu “you may make [me] equal?”

What 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 great like the sea: who can heal you?

אַשְׁוֶה־ 'ash.veh- “will I make equal”