Word

שְׁלָם

shᵉlâm · H8001 · Aramaic · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

peace, harmony, well-being, prosperity

Condition in which there is no conflict, war, danger, sickness, famine, or anything to fear, but where one can live at ease and with confidence

Examples
Ezra 4:17 Then the king sent a response to Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their colleagues who live in Samaria and in the rest of the provinces beyond the Euphrates River: “Peace. And now,
Ezra 5:7 They sent the report to him in which it was written as follows: “To Darius the king, all peace.
Daniel 4:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples, nations, and populations of all languages who live in all the earth: “May your peace be great!

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

2 occurrences in 1 groups

כֶםyour 2

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

כֹּלall 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

שְׂגָאgrow 2

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

דָּֽרְיָוֵשׁDarius 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 1 word

εἰρήνη eirḗnē · G1515 · peace, tranquility, freedom from worry: Greek εἰρήνη renders Aramaic שְׁלָם directly as its standard translation equivalent for 'peace,' maintaining the same semantic range across both prosperity and relational harmony senses.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Safe002003003019: Ezra 4:17 recounts that "Peace." concludes the king's formal response to the officials of Samaria.

Word family 11 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

שָׁלַם shâlam · H7999 · to be finished, to finish · 116×שָׁלוֹם shâlôwm · H7965 · completely, wholly, peace · 237×שֶׁלֶם shelem · H8002 · offering of well-being, peace-offering · 87×שָׁלֵם shâlêm · H8003 · whole, complete, intact · 28×שְׁלָםshᵉlâm · H8001שִׁלּוּם shillûwm · H7966 · payback, retribution, bribe · 3×שְׁלַם shᵉlam · H8000 · deliver, finish · 3×שׁוּלַמִּית Shûwlammîyth · H7759 · Shulamite · 2×שִׁלֵּם shillêm · H8005 · payback, retribution · 1×שִׁלֻּמָה shillumâh · H8011 · payback, retribution · 1×שַׁלְמֹן shalmôn · H8021 · payback, bribe · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8001. shelam שְׁלָם noun masculineDan 3:31 welfare, prosperity; — in greetings: absolute…

H8001. shelam
שְׁלָם noun masculineDan 3:31 welfare, prosperity; — in greetings: absolute Ezr 4:17 prosperity! emphatic שְׁלָמָא Ezr 5:7; suffix יַשְׂגִּיא שְׁלָֽמְכוֺן Daniel 3:31; Dan 6:26.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Safe4 occurrences

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