שֶׁלֶג
sheleg · H7950 · Hebrew · 20 occurrences
Meanings
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snow
Frozen crystallized water vapor in the form of very white flakes which fall as precipitation from the sky and cover the ground during freezing cold weather; as soon as the temperature rises above freezing, it melts and becomes water; associated with cold, whiteness, or purity
ExamplesExodus 4:6 The LORD furthermore said to him, “Now put your hand inside the fold of your robe.” So he put his hand inside the fold, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.
2 Samuel 23:20 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done great deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.
2 Kings 5:27 “Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence afflicted with leprosy, as white as snow.
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soap
A cleansing agent made from the soapwort plant, genus Saponaria
ExamplesJob 9:30 “If I washed myself with snow, And cleansed my hands with lye,
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לְבָנוֹןLebanon 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- יָרַדto go down, to come down 1
- עָזַבto forsake, to leave 1
- עָלַםto go into hiding 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
9 occurrences in 3 groups
- כlike/as 9
- מִןfrom 6
- לto/for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
6 occurrences in 4 groups
- יוֹםday, time 2
- מַיִםwater 2
- אוֹצָרtreasure, storehouse, treasury 1
- צִנָּהshield, large shield 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- קֶרַח qerach · H7140 · cold, ice
- Both words refer to snow or frozen precipitation and can appear in similar contexts of cold and weather.
In the other Testament 2 words
- χιών chiṓn · G5510 · snow
- Greek χιών is the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew שֶׁלֶג, both denoting the frozen precipitation 'snow' with identical semantic range across literal meteorological references and figurative uses (whiteness, purity).
- תְּלַג tᵉlag · H8517 · snow
- תְּלַג (tᵉlag, H8517) (Aramaic תְּלַג) is the direct Aramaic cognate of שֶׁלֶג (sheleg, H7950) (Hebrew שֶׁלֶג), both denoting 'snow' as the same meteorological phenomenon; the lexical difference reflects language variance (Hebrew vs. Aramaic) rather than semantic distinction.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Rain001002005011
- The noun for snow, directly shown in Moses' hand becoming "leprous like snow" (Exodus 4:6), Miriam "leprous, as white as snow" (Numbers 12:10), and Naaman's leprosy that would leave Gehazi "as white as snow" (2 Kings 5:27), alongside the incidental detail of killing a lion "on a snowy day" (2 Samuel 23:20, 1 Chronicles 11:22).
- Soap001002005013
- This domain reflects snow's association with whiteness and cleansing (as in the well-known plea to be washed whiter than snow), not directly shown by this entry's own five sampled citations, which describe snow's color and weather rather than cleansing.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7950. sheleg שֶׁלֶ֫ג noun masculineIsa 55:10 snow; — absolute ׳שׁ Isa 1:18 +, שָׁ֑לֶג…
שֶׁלֶ֫ג noun masculineIsa 55:10 snow; — absolute ׳שׁ Isa 1:18 +, שָׁ֑לֶג Exo 4:6 +; construct שֶׁ֫לֶג Jer 18:14; — snow, 2Sa 23:20 (הַשּׁ ׳יוֺם) = 1Ch 11:22; Job 6:16; Job 37:6 (|| מָטָר גֶּשֶׁם) Psa 147:16; Psa 148:8 ( + קִיטוֺר בָּרָד, אֵשׁ,); שׁ ׳מֵימֵי Job 24:19, compare Job 9:30 Qr (בְּמֵי, < Qr בְּמוֺ De Di Bu and others, snow as purifying; see also [מַי]; in poetry שׁ ׳אִצְרוֺת Job 38:22 (|| ׳א בָּרָד); symbolic of cold Pro 31:21; as moistening, fertilizing Isa 55:10 (|| גֶּשֶׁם); on mountains, figurative of normal habit, ׳שׁ לְבָנוֺן Jer 18:14; simile of whiteness, of leprosy Exo 4:6 (J), Num 12:10(E), 2Ki 5:27; with מִן comp,, of fair skin Lam 4:7 (|| חָלָב); simile of sins, ׳כַּשּׁ יַלְבִּינוּ Isa 1:18, compare Psa 51:9 (מִן compare); simile of refreshment Pro 25:13 (drink cooled by snow, see references in DeToy), of the unfitting ׳כַּשּׁ בַּקַיִץ Pro 26:1 (|| מָטָר). — On snow in Palestine see NicolHast. DB SNOW.
תְּלַג noun [masculine] snow (ᵑ7 Syriac; Biblical Hebrew שֶׁלֶג); — absolute ׳ת Dan 7:9 (simile).
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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