Shua in the Bible

Meaning: crying; saving

Exact Match

And Judah saw there the daughter of a Canaanitish man whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in to her.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningMarital SexMarital Sex Between

And as the days were multiplied, Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. And Judah was comforted, and he went up to his sheep-shearers, to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessSheep ShearingDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsMourning The Death Of Others

Thematic Bible



There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her, had sexual relations with her,

Some years later, Shua's daughter (that is, Judah's wife) died. As Judah was grieving, he visited the shearers of his flock in Timnah, accompanied by his Adullamite friend Hirah.


Heber fathered Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shua.


Judah's three sons Er, Onan, and Shelah were born to him through Bath-shua, a Canaanite. Er, Judah's firstborn, became wicked in the LORD's sight, so he put him to death.


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