שֶׁלַחshelach
missile, weapon, sprout
Pronunciation: sheh'-lakh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7973
Meanings
1. missile, weapon (Nehemiah 4:11; Nehemiah 4:17; 2 Chronicles 23:10)
2. sprout, shoot (Psalms 80:12; Jeremiah 17:8; Song of Solomon 4:13)
Same root
- שָׁלַחshâlach · H7971to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
- מְתוּשֶׁלַחMᵉthûwshelach · H4968Methushelach, an antediluvian patriarch
- שֶׁלַחShelach · H7974Shelach, a postdiluvian patriarch
- שִׁלְחִיShilchîy · H7977Shilchi, an Israelite
- שִׁלְחִיםShilchîym · H7978Shilchim, a place in Palestine
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 23:10 He stationed all the people around the king, with their weapons ready. They formed a line from the south side of the Temple around to the north side and all around the altar.
- 2 Chronicles 32:5 Then Hezekiah worked hard at repairing all the broken sections of the wall, erecting towers, and constructing a second wall outside the first. He also reinforced the supporting terraces in the City of David and manufactured large numbers of weapons and shields.
- Nehemiah 4:17 who were building the wall. The laborers carried on their work with one hand supporting their load and one hand holding a weapon.
- Nehemiah 4:23 During this time, none of us—not I, nor my relatives, nor my servants, nor the guards who were with me—ever took off our clothes. We carried our weapons with us at all times, even when we went for water.
- Job 33:18 He protects them from the grave, from crossing over the river of death.
- Job 36:12 But if they refuse to listen to him, they will cross over the river of death, dying from lack of understanding.
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).