שִׁלּוּם
shillûwm · H7966 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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payback, retribution
Literally: payback; hence: causative process by which deities cause humans to receive the appropriate return for their evil actions
ExamplesIsaiah 34:8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, A year of retribution for the cause of Zion.
Hosea 9:7 The days of punishment have come, The days of retribution have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, The inspired person is insane, Because of the grossness of your wrongdoing, And because your hostility is so great.
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payback, bribe
Literally: payback; hence: causative action by which humans compensate other humans for their actions, whether good or evil
ExamplesMicah 7:3 As for evil, both hands do it well. The leader asks for a bribe, also the judge, And the great one speaks the capricious desire of his soul; So they plot it together.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יוֹםday, time 1
- שָׁנֶהyear 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
- גְּמוּל gᵉmûwl · H1576 · actions, retribution
- Both include "recompense" and "reward" among their core senses, in the field of retribution or requital.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Chastise002003002005
- The noun for recompense or retribution, directly shown in the LORD's "day of vengeance, a year of retribution" against the nations (Isaiah 34:8) and Israel's own "days of retribution" for its wrongdoing (Hosea 9:7); the sampled citation at Micah 7:3 does not itself show the word, describing instead corrupt judges and bribes.
- Happen002002003003
- The sense of retribution's arrival or coming to pass, shown alongside the Chastise domain above in the same two citations describing the day and days of retribution that "have come" (Isaiah 34:8, Hosea 9:7).
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7966. shillum שִׁלּוּם Mic 7:3, שִׁלֻּם Hos 9:7, noun [masculine] requital; — plural…
שִׁלּוּם Mic 7:3, שִׁלֻּם Hos 9:7, noun [masculine] requital; — plural שִׁלּוּמִים Isa 34:8; —
1 requital, retribution, הַשׁ ׳יְמֵי Hos 9:7 (|| מְּקֻדָּה); שׁ ׳שְׁנַת Isa 34:8 (|| נָקָם).
2 reward, bride Mic 7:3 בַּשׁ ׳שֹׁפֵמ.
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
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