The Hebrew shua means a cry for help, a cry of distress, or alternatively a cry of salvation and deliverance. The root shava means to cry out, to call for help — it is the same root from which the name Yeshua (Jesus/Joshua) derives, meaning 'the LORD is salvation.'
The name Yeshua — borne by Moses' successor Joshua and later by Jesus — is directly related to the root of shua. When the desperate soul cries out (shua), the answer to that cry is Yeshua — the One who saves. This etymological connection runs like a golden thread through both Testaments: every cry of distress in the Psalms anticipated the coming One whose very name is 'the LORD saves.' Matthew 1:21 makes this explicit: 'You are to give him the name Jesus (Yeshua), because he will save his people from their sins.' The human cry and the divine answer meet perfectly in the person and name of Christ.