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shua

noun

«shua» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

Judah married Shua's daughter, and she bore his first three sons: Er, Onan and Shelah. Chronicles calls her Bath-shua the Canaanitess. Malchi-shua was a son of King Saul, and another Shua was Heber's daughter.

Meaning

A Canaanite man's name, the father of Judah's wife. It is also the name of a woman in Chronicles, a sister of Heber's sons, and part of Bath-shua and Malchi-shua. tree →

Examples

  • And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in unto her. (Torah GEN.38.2, JPS 1917) tree →
  • And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. (Torah GEN.38.12, JPS 1917) tree →
  • And Heber begot Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister. (Writings 1CH.7.32, JPS 1917) tree →
  • And Ner begot Kish; and Kish begot Saul; and Saul begot Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal. (Writings 1CH.8.33, JPS 1917) tree →
  • The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born unto him of Bath-shua the Canaanitess. (Writings 1CH.2.3, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

On Mova

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