שִׁילֹהShîylôh

proper name [of a location]: approximately 9 1/2 miles north-northeast of Bethel (2 Samuel 15:12; Judges 21:19; 1 Samuel 1:24; 1 Samuel 3:21; 1 Samuel 14:3)

Pronunciation: shee-lo' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7887

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 32 times in the Bible.

  • Joshua 18:1 Now that the land was under Israelite control, the entire community of Israel gathered at Shiloh and set up the Tabernacle.
  • Joshua 18:8 As the men started on their way to map out the land, Joshua commanded them, “Go and explore the land and write a description of it. Then return to me, and I will assign the land to the tribes by casting sacred lots here in the presence of the Lord at Shiloh.”
  • Joshua 18:9 The men did as they were told and mapped the entire territory into seven sections, listing the towns in each section. They made a written record and then returned to Joshua in the camp at Shiloh.
  • Joshua 18:10 And there at Shiloh, Joshua cast sacred lots in the presence of the Lord to determine which tribe should have each section.
  • Joshua 19:51 These are the territories that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the tribal leaders allocated as grants of land to the tribes of Israel by casting sacred lots in the presence of the Lord at the entrance of the Tabernacle at Shiloh. So the division of the land was completed.
  • Joshua 21:2 They came to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said, “The Lord commanded Moses to give us towns to live in and pasturelands for our livestock.”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).