שְׁלַםshᵉlam

be complete

Pronunciation: shel-am' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8000

Meanings

Pe`al: finished (Ezra 5:16)

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

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Ezra 5:16 So this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the Temple of God in Jerusalem. The people have been working on it ever since, though it is not yet completed.’
  • Ezra 7:19 “But as for the cups we are entrusting to you for the service of the Temple of your God, deliver them all to the God of Jerusalem.
  • Daniel 5:26 This is what these words mean: Mene means ‘numbered’—God has numbered the days of your reign and has brought it to an end.

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).