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# שְׁאֵלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7596

**request** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

request [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7596/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁאֵלָה: n.f. request, thing asked for [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7596/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** \[i. שֵׁלָה\] n.f. request, thing asked for;—שְׁא׳ Ju 8:24 +; sf. שְׁאֵלָתִי 1 S 1:27 +, שֶׁאֱלָתִי Jb 6:8, שְׁאֵלָתֵךְ Est 5:6 +, שֵׁלָתֵךְ 1 S 1:17, שֶׁאֱלָתָם ψ 106:15;— request, petition, Ju 8:24; 1 K 2:16, 20 (both acc. cogn. c. שָׁאַל), Est 5:6, 7 (c. נָתַן = grant), 7:2, 3; 9:12. This passes easily into thing asked for, 1 S 2:20, c. נָתַן 1:17, 27; Est 5:8 ψ 106:15; תָּבוֹא שׁ׳ Jb 6:8.—ii. שֵׁלָה v. infr. אֶשְׁתָּאֹל n.pr.m., v. p. 84a.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: petition (10); a petition (3).

## In the verses

[Esther 5:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.5.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.5.7/#tree)

וַתַּ֥עַן אֶסְתֵּ֖ר וַתֹּאמַ֑ר שְׁאֵלָתִ֖י וּבַקָּשָׁתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and she.answered Esther and she.said petition my and request my

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Esther, and said: 'My petition and my request is —

[Job 6:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.8/#tree)

מִֽי־יִ֭תֵּן תָּב֣וֹא שֶֽׁאֱלָתִ֑י וְ֝תִקְוָתִ֗י יִתֵּ֥ן אֱלֽוֹהַּ׃

*Word for word:* who? will.he.give it.will.come petition my and hope my he.will.give God

*JPS 1917:* Oh that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7596.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7596/): 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).