H7737A–שָׁוָה–sha.vah

And Haman saith to the king Ahasuerus, `There is one people scattered and separated among the peoples, in all provinces of thy kingdom, and their laws `are' diverse from all people, and the laws of the king they are not doing, and for the king it is not profitable to suffer them;

שֹׁוֶ֖ה sho.Veh “[is] appropriate”

and all this is not profitable to me, during all the time that I am seeing Mordecai the Jew sitting in the gate of the king.'

שֹׁוֶ֖ה sho.Veh “[is] adequate”

for we have been sold, I and my people, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy; and if for men-servants and for maid-servants we had been sold I had kept silent -- but the adversity is not equal to the loss of the king.'

שֹׁוֶ֖ה sho.Veh “[is] equal”

He looketh on men, and saith, `I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.

שָׁ֥וָה Sha.vah “it was equal”

The way of faithfulness I have chosen, Thy judgments I have compared,

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

Have I not compared, and kept silent my soul, As a weaned one by its mother? As a weaned one by me `is' my soul.

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

Precious she `is' above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her.

יִֽשְׁווּ־ yish.vu- “they compare”

For better `is' wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it.

יִֽשְׁווּ־ yish.vu- “they compare”

Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou be like to him -- even thou.

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

A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,

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

Hath he not, if he have made level its face, Then scattered fitches, and cummin sprinkle, And hath placed the principal wheat, And the appointed barley, And the rie `in' its own border?

שִׁוָּ֣ה shi.Vah “he has leveled”

And unto whom do ye liken Me, And `am' I equal? saith the Holy One.

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

To whom do ye liken Me, and make equal? And compare Me, that we may be like?

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

What do I testify `to' thee, what do I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What do I equal to thee, and I comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For great as a sea `is' thy breach, Who doth give healing to thee?

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