שֶׁלַח
shelach · H7973 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Thing
- WeaponWarfare57 verses
Meanings
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weapon
Tool designed to inflict bodily harm, used in armed conflicts
ExamplesJoel 2:8 They do not crowd each other, Every warrior of them marches in his path; When they burst through the defenses, They do not break ranks.
Nehemiah 4:17 Those who were rebuilding the wall and those who carried burdens carried with one hand doing the work, and the other keeping hold of a weapon.
Nehemiah 4:23 So neither I, my brothers, my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me—none of us removed our clothes; each took his weapon even to the water.
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Meaning unsure; possibly: branch of a tree, here extended to denote the body of a young woman and all it offers in lovemaking (shoots > body (and its pleasures))
ExamplesSong of Solomon 4:13 “Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates With delicious fruits, henna with nard plants,
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channel, river
Meaning unsure; possibly: river that forms the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead
How it’s used In 4 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
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוּhis 2
- ךְyour 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- חָזַקto be strong, to strengthen 1
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יָדhand, power 1
- פַּרְדֵּסpark 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 4
- בְּעַדfor, behind, through 2
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 2 words
- חֵץ chêts · H2671 · arrow, bow
- חֵץ is the standard Hebrew word for arrow, a specific type of projectile weapon closely related to the dart/missile sense of שֶׁלַח
- כְּלִי kᵉlîy · H3627 · object, vessel, instrument
- כְּלִי in its weapon sense (כְּלִי מִלְחָמָה 'weapon of war') serves as a general Hebrew term for weapon or implement, parallel to the broader weapon sense of שֶׁלַח
In the other Testament 2 words
- βέλος bélos · G956 · arrow, dart
- βέλος is the standard Greek term for a projectile weapon (dart, arrow), corresponding directly to the primary sense of שֶׁלַח as 'dart' or missile weapon
- ὅπλον hóplon · G3696 · tool, instrument, means
- ὅπλον is a general Greek term for weapon or armament, matching the broader 'weapon' sense of שֶׁלַח
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Weapons001003001001020
- The noun for a weapon, directly shown in every man stationed "with his weapon in his hand" (2 Chronicles 23:10), the weapons and shields made in great numbers for Jerusalem's defense (2 Chronicles 32:5), the builders "keeping hold of a weapon" while working (Nehemiah 4:17), and the soul kept back "from perishing by the spear" (Job 33:18).
- People001001003
- The armed defenders themselves, reflected in "each man with his weapon in his hand" stationed around the temple (2 Chronicles 23:10).
- Waterbodies001002008
- This domain reflects the same word's "conduit/watercourse" sense (related to its "plant/shoot" meaning, as a channel through which water is sent), not directly shown by this entry's own sampled citations, which all describe weapons.
- Names of People003001007
- This lexeme's genuine tagged occurrences (2 Chronicles 23:10, "each man with his weapon in his hand"; 2 Chronicles 32:5, "weapons"; Job 33:18, "his life from perishing by the spear") illustrate the common noun "weapon, dart, sword," not a proper personal name; this Names of People domain code is bundle-shared from the fact-packet's cognate cluster and carries no tagged occurrence of שֶׁלַח (shelach, H7973) independently attesting a personal-name sense of its own.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7973. shelach I. שֶׁ֫לַח noun [masculine] missile, weapon, sprout (late); — absolute ׳שׁ…
I. שֶׁ֫לַח noun [masculine] missile, weapon, sprout (late); — absolute ׳שׁ Joe 2:8 +, שָׁ֑לַח Neh 4:11; Job 33:18, suffix שִׁלְחוֺ Neh 4:17; plural שְׁלָחִים2Ch 23:10, etc.; —
1 missile, weapon, Neh 4:11 and Neh 4:17 (where הַמַּיִם corrupt; read probably בִּימִינוֺ or בְּיָדוֺ; see Ryle BeRy Berthol), 2Ch 23:10 (distinguished from מָנֵן חֲנִית,); collective 2Ch 32:5 and בַּשׁ ׳עָבַר Job 33:18; Job 36:12 (perish by or < rush upon [and perish]), Joe 2:8 (see בְּעַד).
2 sprout, shoot (compare [שְׁלוּחָה], and √ Psa 80:12; Jer 17:8), מַּרְדֵּס שְׁלָחַיִךְ Son 4:13 (figurative; meaning ? PerlesAnal. 63 proposes לְחָיָיִךְ שְׁנֵי thy two cheeks); + probably Eze 31:5 (read בִּשְׁלָחָיו Co Toy and others, or בְּשִׁלְחֵי [with Eze 31:6] Krae).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 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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