שְׁאֵלָא
shᵉʼêlâʼ · H7595 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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decision, verdict
A decision by someone in authority on a certain issue
ExamplesDaniel 4:17 “This sentence is by the decree of the angelic watchers, And the decision is a command of the holy ones, In order that the living may know That the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind, And He grants it to whomever He wishes And sets over it the lowliest of people.”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מֵאמַרappointment 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- αἰτέω aitéō · G154 · to ask for, to demand, to plead for
- αἰτέω is the standard Greek verb for requesting or demanding something, the natural translation equivalent for שְׁאֵלָא's sense of 'demand/request' in contexts of asking or requiring something from another party.
- ἐπερωτάω eperōtáō · G1905 · to ask, to ask a question, to ask for
- ἐπερωτάω carries the sense of asking or demanding information/action, particularly in contexts of inquiry or request, serving as a functional equivalent for the Aramaic term denoting a demand or petition.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Wish002004002001001
- This Wish code is inherited from the shared listing with שְׁאֵלָה (shᵉʼêlâh, H7596) (loan, petition, request); it does not independently apply to this word's own attested decision/verdict sense.
- Speak002004001009008
- This Speak code is likewise inherited from the shared listing with שְׁאֵלָה (shᵉʼêlâh, H7596) and does not independently apply to the decision/verdict sense.
- Think002004002013
- Daniel 4:17 recounts that “the decision is a command of the holy ones.”
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7595. sheelah [שְׁאֵלָה] noun feminine affair (weakened from question, inquiry, compare…
[שְׁאֵלָה] noun feminine affair (weakened from question, inquiry, compare Dr); — emphatic שְׁאֵלְתָּא Dan 4:14.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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