H7737A–שָׁוָה–sha.vah

And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.

שֹׁוֶ֖ה sho.Veh “[is] appropriate”

Yet all this availeth 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 bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.

שֹׁוֶ֖ה sho.Veh “[is] equal”

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

שָׁ֥וָה Sha.vah “it was equal”

I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

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

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

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

She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

יִֽשְׁווּ־ yish.vu- “they compare”

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

יִֽשְׁווּ־ yish.vu- “they compare”

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

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

A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

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

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

שִׁוָּ֣ה shi.Vah “he has leveled”

To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

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

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

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

What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

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