eRhema Explore
Word

שָׁלַף

shâlaph · H8025 · Hebrew · 25 occurrences

See all 25 in Search

Meanings

  1. to pull out, to draw

    Causative action by which humans or divine beings use their hands to remove an object from its location with a movement opposite to the direction in which it was attached or inserted

    Examples

    Numbers 22:23 When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, the donkey turned off from the road and went into the field; and Balaam struck the donkey to guide her back onto the road.

    Numbers 22:31 Then the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed all the way to the ground.

    Joshua 5:13 Now it came about when Joshua was by Jericho, he raised his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”

  2. swordsman

    Literally: person drawing the sword; hence: soldier armed with a sword

    Examples

    Judges 20:2 And the leaders of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, took their stand in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand foot soldiers who drew the sword.

    Judges 20:15 From the cities on that day the sons of Benjamin were counted, twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah who were counted, seven hundred choice men.

    Judges 20:17 Then the men of Israel besides Benjamin were counted, four hundred thousand men who drew the sword; all of these were men of war.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

23 occurrences in 7 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

17 occurrences in 3 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 3 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 1 groups

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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.

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.

Near synonyms 2 words
נָתַק nâthaq · H5423 · to pull off, to tear off, to wrench off
Both denote forcible removal or detachment, such as breaking off, pulling out, plucking off and drawing off.
קָצָה qâtsâh · H7096 · to cut off, to sever, to strip
Both lexemes denote actions of removing or separating something from a larger whole, genuine detachment verbs that could overlap in sense (cutting off vs. drawing/plucking off). This is a near-synonym pairing of separation/removal verbs.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Detach002003001006
This verb denotes drawing a weapon out of its sheath, as in Numbers 22:23's description of the angel of the LORD standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand.
Soldiers001001003013
The verb also underlies the substantival sense "those who draw the sword," i.e. armed soldiers, as in Judges 8:10's count of the fallen among Zebah and Zalmunna's army as 120,000 swordsmen.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8025. shalaph שָׁלַף verb draw out, off (Late Hebrew id., loosen, draw (nail, sword;…
H8025. shalaph
שָׁלַף verb draw out, off (Late Hebrew id., loosen, draw (nail, sword; Jastr); Assyrian šalâpu, pluck out, draw sword; Aramaic לְֵַף draw sword, draw off shoe, draw sword, in Lexicons remove corselet; Arabic is pass, pass away, strip, plunder, etc.); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳שׁ Jdg 3:22 +; Imperfect3masculine singular וַיִּשְׁלֹף Rth 4:8, etc.; Imperative masculine singular שְׁלֹף Jdg 9:54 +; Participle active שֹׁלֵף Jdg 8:10 +, etc.; passive feminine שׁלוּפָה Num 22:23 +; —
1 draw out sword from (מִן) wound Jdg 3:22, compare Job 20:25; usually sword from sheath Jdg 8:20; Jdg 9:54; 1Sa 31:4 = 1Ch 10:4, + מִתַּעְרָהּ 1Sa 17:51; בְּיָדוֺ שָׁלוּפָה וְחַרְבּוֺ Num 22:23, Num 22:31; Jos 5:13 (all J), 1Ch 21:16; elsewhere ח שֹׁלֵף ׳אִישׁ collective Jdg 8:10; Jdg 20:2, Jdg 20:15, Jdg 20:17, Jdg 20:46; 2Sa 24:9; 2Ki 3:26; 1Ch 21:5 (twice in verse), compare Jdg 20:35 and (ח ׳שְׁלֹפֵי) Jdg 20:25.
2 draw off sandal Rth 4:7-8, (compare I. חלץ
1; also RSK 269 DrDeu 25:9 BewerSK lxxvi (1903), 332).
3 shoot up (?), i.e. draw out blade, of grass on roof Psa 129:6 (compare Ew Bae and others); Che Dr is unsheathed (verb with subject indefinite = passive), with same meaning; Hup-Now proposes שָׁלֵם (with || in Syriac); see OrtenbergTextkrit1 K d. Ps. (1861), 30 שֶׁחָלָף, WeHpt Du חֲלֹף (as Psa 90:5; Psa 90:6, see ׳ח 2).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Soldiers11 occurrencesDetach14 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

New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.