שָׁבַח shavach

Hebrew word for “to praise” · Strong’s H7623 · used 11 times in 11 verses

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Meaning

1) to laud, praise, commend;

Senses in the lexicon

• to praise (8)
• to soothe (3)

How it is translated

Glosses given for shavach in context, with how often each is used:

• boast 2
• will extol 2
• extol 2
• congratulated 1
• commend 1
• who calms 1
• calm 1
• calms 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Chronicles 16 (1), Psalms 63 (1), Psalms 65 (1), Psalms 89 (1), Psalms 106 (1), Psalms 117 (1), Psalms 145 (1), Psalms 147 (1), Proverbs 29 (1), Ecclesiastes 4 (1)

Forms

• להשׁתבח 2
• ישׁבחונך 1
• שׁבחוהו 1
• ישׁבח 1
• שׁבחי 1
• ושׁבח 1
• ושׁבחתי 1
• משׁביח 1
• תשׁבחם 1
• ישׁבחנה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shavach more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• גַּל gal “heap” 2
• תְּהִלָּה tehillah “praise” 2
• חַי chay “alive” 3
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 3
• יָדָה yadah “to give thanks” 2
• קָבַץ qavats “to gather” 2
• הָלַל halal “to boast” 2
• יָשַׁע yasah “to save” 2
• מִן־ min “from” 3
• יָם yam “sea” 2
• קֹדֶשׁ qodesh “holiness” 2
• טוֹב tov “pleasant” 2

Key verses

The verses using shavach that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Chronicles 16:35 — And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in…
• Psalms 63:3 — Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
• Psalms 65:7 — Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
• Psalms 89:9 — Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
• Psalms 106:47 — Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
• Psalms 117:1 — O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
• Psalms 145:4 — One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
• Psalms 147:12 — Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
• Proverbs 29:11 — A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
• Ecclesiastes 4:2 — Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
• Ecclesiastes 8:15 — Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.