Topic
Shew, Show
21 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 12:1ISBE
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
- Deuteronomy 4:35ISBE
Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
- Judges 4:22ISBE
And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
- 1 Samuel 9:27ISBE
And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee the word of God.
- Psalms 16:11ISBE
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
- Psalms 39:6ISBE
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
- Song of Songs 2:9ISBE
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
- Isaiah 3:9ISBE
¶ The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
- Isaiah 43:9ISBE
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
- Jeremiah 38:21ISBE
But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me:
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 43:1ISBE
The pride of the height, the clear firmament, the beauty of heaven, with his glorious shew;
- Matthew 14:2ISBE
And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
Show 9 more
- Luke 1:80 ISBE
- Luke 8:39 ISBE
- Luke 20:47 ISBE
- Acts 4:22 ISBE
- Acts 7:36 ISBE
- Galatians 6:12 ISBE
- Colossians 2:15 ISBE
- Colossians 2:23 ISBE
- 2 Peter 1:14 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 21 references
sho: "Show" (so always the American Standard Revised Version) is simply a modernized spelling of "shew" (so always in the King James Version and generally in the English Revised Version), and it should be carefully noted that "shew" is never pronounced "shoo," not even in the combination "shewbread"; Compare "sew."
In the King James Version "shew" as a verb is the translation of a very large number of terms in the original. This number is reduced considerably by the Revised Version (British and American) (especially in the New Testament), but most of these changes are to secure uniformity of rendition, rather than to correct obscurities. The proper sense of the verb, of course, is "to cause a person to see" (Ge 12:1, etc.) or "to cause a thing (or "person") to be seen" (De 4:35; Jud 4:22, etc.). "Seeing," naturally, can be taken as intellectual or moral (Jer 38:21; Ps 16:11, etc.), and can even be used for "hearing" (Isa 43:9, etc.; contrast the Revised Version (British and American) 1Sa 9:27). Hence, "shew" can be used as a general translation for the most various phrases, as "be shewed" for ginomai, "come to pass" (Ac 4:22, the Revised Version (British and American) "be wrought"); "shew forth themselves" for energeo, "be active" (Mt 14:2, the Revised Version (British and American) "work"); "shew" for poieo "do" (Ac 7:36, the Revised Version (British and American) "having wrought"); for diegeomai, "relate" (Lu 8:39 the Revised Version (British and American) "declare"); for deloo, "make clear" (2Pe 1:14, the Revised Version (British and American) "signify"), etc. In So 2:9 the King James Version (English Revised Version) "shewing himself" and the American Standard Revised Version (English Revised Version margin) "glanceth" both miss the poetry of the original: "His eyes shine in through the lattice" (tsuts, "blossom" "sparkle").
The King James Version's uses of the noun "shew" usually connote appearance in contrast to reality. So Lu 20:47, "for a shew" (prophasis, "apparent cause," the Revised Version (British and American) "pretence"); Col 2:23, "shew of wisdom" (so the Revised Version (British and American), logos, "word," "repute"); Ga 6:12, "make a fair shew" (so the Revised Version (British and American), euprosopeo, "have a fair face"); Ps 39:6, "vain shew" (so the American Standard Revised Version tselem, "image" the Revised Version margin "shadow"). However, in Sirach 43:1 (horama, "spectacle" (so the Revised Version (British and American))) and in Col 2:15 deigmatizo, "to display") "shew" = "spectacle." In Isa 3:9 "the shew of their countenance" is a bad translation for "their respect of persons" (so the Revised Version margin for hakkarath penehem). The "shewing" of the Baptist "unto Israel" (Lu 1:80 the King James Version, the English Revised Version) is of course his appearing to begin his ministry.
Burton Scott Easton
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.