שָׁלַףshâlaph
draw out, off
Pronunciation: saw-laf' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8025
Meanings
Qal: active, passive (Judges 3:22; Ruth 4:8; Judges 9:54)
1. draw out (Judges 3:22; Job 20:25; Judges 8:20)
2. draw off (Ruth 4:7; Ruth 4:8; Deuteronomy 25:9)
3. shoot up (?), i.e. draw out (Psalms 129:6; Psalms 90:5; Psalms 90:6)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 25 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 22:23 Balaam’s donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand. The donkey bolted off the road into a field, but Balaam beat it and turned it back onto the road.
- Numbers 22:31 Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the roadway with a drawn sword in his hand. Balaam bowed his head and fell face down on the ground before him.
- Joshua 5:13 When Joshua was near the town of Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with sword in hand. Joshua went up to him and demanded, “Are you friend or foe?”
- Judges 3:22 The dagger went so deep that the handle disappeared beneath the king’s fat. So Ehud did not pull out the dagger, and the king’s bowels emptied.
- Judges 8:10 By this time Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with about 15,000 warriors—all that remained of the allied armies of the east, for 120,000 had already been killed.
- Judges 8:20 Turning to Jether, his oldest son, he said, “Kill them!” But Jether did not draw his sword, for he was only a boy and was afraid.
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).