שֶׁלֶםshelem
sacrifice for alliance or friendship, 'peace-offering' (Proverbs 7:14; Amos 5:22; Exodus 24:5; Leviticus 10:14; Exodus 20:24)
Pronunciation: sheh'-lem · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8002
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 87 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 20:24 “Build for me an altar made of earth, and offer your sacrifices to me—your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats, and your cattle. Build my altar wherever I cause my name to be remembered, and I will come to you and bless you.
- Exodus 24:5 Then he sent some of the young Israelite men to present burnt offerings and to sacrifice bulls as peace offerings to the Lord.
- Exodus 29:28 In the future, whenever the people of Israel lift up a peace offering, a portion of it must be set aside for Aaron and his descendants. This is their permanent right, and it is a sacred offering from the Israelites to the Lord.
- Exodus 32:6 The people got up early the next morning to sacrifice burnt offerings and peace offerings. After this, they celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.
- Leviticus 3:1 “If you present an animal from the herd as a peace offering to the Lord, it may be a male or a female, but it must have no defects.
- Leviticus 3:3 The priest must present part of this peace offering as a special gift to the Lord. This includes all the fat around the internal organs,
See every passage
- Exodus 20:24, 24:5, 29:28, 32:6
- Leviticus 3:1, 3:3, 3:6, 3:9, 4:10, 4:26, 4:31, 4:35, 6:12, 7:11, 7:13, 7:14, 7:15, 7:18, 7:20, 7:21, 7:29, 7:32, 7:33, 7:34, 7:37, 9:4, 9:18, 9:22, 10:14, 17:5, 19:5, 22:21, 23:19
- Numbers 6:14, 6:17, 6:18, 7:17, 7:23, 7:29, 7:35, 7:41, 7:47, 7:53, 7:59, 7:65, 7:71, 7:77, 7:83, 7:88, 10:10, 15:8, 29:39
- Deuteronomy 27:7
- Joshua 8:31, 22:23, 22:27
- Judges 20:26, 21:4
- 1 Samuel 10:8, 11:15, 13:9
- 2 Samuel 6:17, 6:18, 24:25
- 1 Kings 3:15, 8:63, 8:64, 9:25
- 2 Kings 16:13
- 1 Chronicles 16:1, 16:2, 21:26
- 2 Chronicles 7:7, 29:35, 30:22, 31:2, 33:16
- Proverbs 7:14
- Ezekiel 43:27, 45:15, 45:17, 46:2, 46:12
- Amos 5:22
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).