שָׁלַםshâlam

שָׁלֵם: be complete, sound

Pronunciation: shaw-lam' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7999

Meanings

Qal

1. be complete, finished, ended (1 Kings 7:51; 2 Chronicles 5:1; Nehemiah 6:15)

2. be sound, uninjured (Job 9:4)

Pi`el: id. (Leviticus 5:24; Jeremiah 16:18; Exodus 21:34)

1. complete, finish (1 Kings 9:25)

2. make safe (Job 8:6)

3. make whole or good, restore (Joel 2:25; Exodus 21:37; 2 Kings 4:7)

4. make good, i.e. pay, vows (Deuteronomy 23:22; 2 Samuel 15:7; Psalms 50:14)

5. requite, recompense, reward (1 Samuel 24:20; Ruth 2:12; Isaiah 65:6)

Pu`al

1. be performed (Psalms 65:2)

2. be repaid, requited (Jeremiah 18:20; Proverbs 11:31; Proverbs 13:13)

Hiph`il

1. complete, perform (Job 23:14; Isaiah 44:26)

2. make an end of (Isaiah 38:12; Isaiah 38:13)

שָׁלַם: be in covenant of peace

Qal: be at peace, passive (Job 22:21; Psalms 7:5; Psalms 41:10)

Pu`al: one in covenant of peace, their ruler (Isaiah 42:19)

Hiph`il

1. make peace (Joshua 10:1; Joshua 10:4; 2 Samuel 10:19)

2. cause to be at peace (Proverbs 16:7)

Hoph`al: live in peace with, לְ (|| ברית) (Job 5:23)

: be complete

Pe`al: finished (Ezra 5:16)

Haph`el: has finished it (Daniel 5:26; Ezra 7:19)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 116 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 44:4 But when they had gone only a short distance and were barely out of the city, Joseph said to his palace manager, “Chase after them and stop them. When you catch up with them, ask them, ‘Why have you repaid my kindness with such evil?
  • Exodus 21:34 The owner of the pit must pay full compensation to the owner of the animal, but then he gets to keep the dead animal.
  • Exodus 21:36 But if the ox had a reputation for goring, yet its owner failed to keep it under control, he must pay full compensation—a live ox for the dead one—but he may keep the dead ox.
  • Exodus 22:1 “If someone steals an ox or sheep and then kills or sells it, the thief must pay back five oxen for each ox stolen, and four sheep for each sheep stolen.
  • Exodus 22:3 But if it happens in daylight, the one who killed the thief is guilty of murder. “A thief who is caught must pay in full for everything he stole. If he cannot pay, he must be sold as a slave to pay for his theft.
  • Exodus 22:4 If someone steals an ox or a donkey or a sheep and it is found in the thief’s possession, then the thief must pay double the value of the stolen animal.
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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).