Strong's Concordance
Original word: שָׁוָה
Transliteration: shavah
Definition (short): avail
Definition (full): to level, equalize, to resemble, to adjust
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
A primitive root; properly, to level, i.e. Equalize; figuratively, to resemble; by implication, to adjust (i.e. Counterbalance, be suitable, compose, place, yield, etc.) -- avail, behave, bring forth, compare, countervail, (be, make) equal, lay, be (make, a-)like, make plain, profit, reckon.
References
KJV:
He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
NASB:
"He makes my feet like hinds' feet, And sets me on my high places.
KJV:
And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
NASB:
Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not observe the king's laws, so it is not in the king's interest to let them remain.
KJV:
Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
NASB:
"Yet all of this does not satisfy me every time I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."
KJV:
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
NASB:
for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed and to be annihilated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the trouble would not be commensurate with the annoyance to the king."