Every Name in Tanakh

שׁוּעַ Shua

Every verse in which this name stands — 2 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the occurrences our own corpus tags as this name, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

PersonGematria 376×2 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

A Canaanite. The name stands twice in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 38:2 and last at Genesis 38:12.

Genesis 38:2בראשית לח:ב

וַיַּרְא־שָׁם יְהוּדָה בַּת־אִישׁ כְּנַעֲנִי וּשְׁמוֹ שׁוּעַ וַיִּקָּחֶהָ וַיָּבֹא אֵלֶֽיהָ

And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in unto her.

Genesis 38:12בראשית לח:יב

וַיִּרְבּוּ הַיָּמִים וַתָּמָת בַּת־שׁוּעַ אֵֽשֶׁת־יְהוּדָה וַיִּנָּחֶם יְהוּדָה וַיַּעַל עַל־גֹּֽזֲזֵי צֹאנוֹ הוּא וְחִירָה רֵעֵהוּ הָעֲדֻלָּמִי תִּמְנָֽתָה

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.

Quick answers

What is the gematria of Shua?

Shua — שוע in Hebrew — has a gematria of 376 in the standard method.

How many times is Shua named in the Tanakh?

2 times, first at Genesis 38:2.

A spelling is not a name. The written word שוע stands 12 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell another name or an ordinary word, and a name written with a particle attached is a word that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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