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# שְׁאָלָה

Biblical Hebrew

**request** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

request [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5d0_5b8_5dc_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** Is 7:11 v. שְׁאוֹל 1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a request (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 7:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.11/#tree)

שְׁאַל־לְךָ֣ א֔וֹת מֵעִ֖ם יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ הַעְמֵ֣ק שְׁאָ֔לָה א֖וֹ הַגְבֵּ֥הַּ לְמָֽעְלָה׃

*Word for word:* ask for yourself a.sign from with Yahweh God your make.deep a.request or make.high (to) upwards

*JPS 1917:* 'Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5d0_5b8_5dc_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5d0_5b8_5dc_5b8_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).