שָׁוַע shâvaʻ — properly, to be free
Translated in the KJV as cry (aloud, out), shout.
a primitive root; properly, to be free; but used only causatively and reflexively, to halloo (for help, i.e. freedom from some trouble).
shâvaʻ in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 11Perfect (qatal) 4Infinitive construct 3Participle (active) 2Wayyiqtol 1
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›