שָׁלוֹםshâlôwm
completeness, soundness, welfare, peace
Pronunciation: shaw-lome' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7965
Meanings
1. completeness (Jeremiah 13:19; Amos 1:6)
2. safety, soundness (Psalms 38:4; Isaiah 38:17; Job 5:24)
3. welfare, health, prosperity (Genesis 43:27; Exodus 18:7; Judges 18:15)
4. peace, quiet, tranquility, contentment (Isaiah 32:17; Psalms 4:9; Genesis 15:15)
5. peace, friendship
a. human relations (Jeremiah 20:10; Jeremiah 38:22; Obadiah 1:7)
b. peace, with God, especially in covenant relation (Isaiah 54:10; Numbers 25:12; Ezekiel 34:25)
6. peace (Joshua 9:15; Job 25:2; Leviticus 26:6)
7. as adjective (Psalms 55:21)
Same root
- שָׁלַםshâlam · H7999to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications)
- ΣαλώμηSalṓmē · G4539Salome (i.e. Shelomah), an Israelitess
- אֲבִישָׁלוֹםʼĂbîyshâlôwm · H53Abshalom, a son of David; also (the fuller form) a later Israelite
- יְהֹוָה שָׁלוֹםYᵉhôvâh shâlôwm · H3073Jehovah-Shalom, a symbolical name of an altar in Palestine
- שְׁלָםshᵉlâm · H8001prosperity
- שְׁלֹמֹהShᵉlômôh · H8010Shelomah, David's successor
- שְׁלֹמוֹתShᵉlômôwth · H8013Shelomoth, the name of two Israelites
- שְׁלֹמִיShᵉlômîy · H8015Shelomi, an Israelite
Where it appears
Appears 237 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 15:15 (As for you, you will die in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.)
- Genesis 26:29 Swear that you will not harm us, just as we have never troubled you. We have always treated you well, and we sent you away from us in peace. And now look how the Lord has blessed you!”
- Genesis 26:31 Early the next morning, they each took a solemn oath not to interfere with each other. Then Isaac sent them home again, and they left him in peace.
- Genesis 28:21 and if I return safely to my father’s home, then the Lord will certainly be my God.
- Genesis 29:6 “Is he doing well?” Jacob asked. “Yes, he’s well,” they answered. “Look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the flock now.”
- Genesis 37:4 But his brothers hated Joseph because their father loved him more than the rest of them. They couldn’t say a kind word to him.
See every passage
- Genesis 15:15, 26:29, 26:31, 28:21, 29:6, 37:4, 37:14, 41:16, 43:23, 43:27, 43:28, 44:17
- Exodus 4:18, 18:7, 18:23
- Leviticus 26:6
- Numbers 6:26, 25:12
- Deuteronomy 2:26, 20:10, 20:11, 23:6, 29:19
- Joshua 9:15, 10:21
- Judges 4:17, 6:23, 6:24, 8:9, 11:13, 11:31, 18:6, 18:15, 19:20, 21:13
- 1 Samuel 1:17, 7:14, 10:4, 16:4, 16:5, 17:18, 17:22, 20:7, 20:13, 20:21, 20:42, 25:5, 25:6, 25:35, 29:7, 30:21
- 2 Samuel 3:21, 3:22, 3:23, 8:10, 11:7, 15:9, 15:27, 17:3, 18:28, 18:29, 18:32, 19:24, 19:30, 20:9
- 1 Kings 2:5, 2:6, 2:13, 2:33, 4:24, 5:12, 20:18, 22:17, 22:27, 22:28
- 2 Kings 4:23, 4:26, 5:19, 5:21, 5:22, 9:11, 9:17, 9:18, 9:19, 9:22, 9:31, 10:13, 20:19, 22:20
- 1 Chronicles 12:17, 12:18, 18:10, 22:9
- 2 Chronicles 15:5, 18:16, 18:26, 18:27, 19:1, 34:28
- Ezra 9:12
- Esther 2:11, 9:30, 10:3
- Job 5:24, 15:21, 21:9, 25:2
- Psalms 4:8, 28:3, 29:11, 34:14, 35:20, 35:27, 37:11, 37:37, 38:3, 41:9, 55:18, 55:20, 69:22, 72:3, 72:7, 73:3, 85:8, 85:10, 119:165, 120:6, 120:7, 122:6, 122:7, 122:8, 125:5, 128:6, 147:14
- Proverbs 3:2, 3:17, 12:20
- Ecclesiastes 3:8
- Song of Solomon 8:10
- Isaiah 9:6, 9:7, 26:3, 26:12, 27:5, 32:17, 32:18, 33:7, 38:17, 39:8, 41:3, 45:7, 48:18, 48:22, 52:7, 53:5, 54:10, 54:13, 55:12, 57:2, 57:19, 57:21, 59:8, 60:17, 66:12
- Jeremiah 4:10, 6:14, 8:11, 8:15, 9:8, 12:5, 12:12, 13:19, 14:13, 14:19, 15:5, 16:5, 20:10, 23:17, 25:37, 28:9, 29:7, 29:11, 30:5, 33:6, 33:9, 34:5, 38:4, 38:22, 43:12
- Lamentations 3:17
- Ezekiel 7:25, 13:10, 13:16, 34:25, 37:26
- Daniel 10:19
- Obadiah 1:7
- Micah 3:5, 5:5
- Nahum 1:15
- Haggai 2:9
- Zechariah 6:13, 8:10, 8:12, 8:16, 8:19, 9:10
- Malachi 2:5, 2:6
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).