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# שׁוּלַמִּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7759

**Shillemites** — used 2 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

Shillemites [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7759/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוּלַמִּית: adj.gent. Shulammite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7759/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** usually expl. as adj.gent. f. Shulammite;—c. art. as n. הַשּׁ׳ heroine of Song of Songs Ct 7:1(×2); = Shunammite (from שׁוּנֵם, mod. Sûlem), B Σουμανεῖτις; but א A Σουλαμιτις; ? cp. Nab. n.pr.f. שלימת = سَلِيمَةُ, سُلَيْمَةُ Lzb376.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shulammite \[woman\] (1); \[woman\] (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 7:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.1/#tree)

שׁ֤וּבִי שׁ֙וּבִי֙ הַשּׁ֣וּלַמִּ֔ית שׁ֥וּבִי שׁ֖וּבִי וְנֶחֱזֶה־בָּ֑ךְ מַֽה־תֶּחֱזוּ֙ בַּשּׁ֣וּלַמִּ֔ית כִּמְחֹלַ֖ת הַֽמַּחֲנָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* return return O Shulammite.\[woman\] return return so that.we.may.look on you why? will.you.look on the.Shulammite \[woman\] like the.dance of the.two.groups

*JPS 1917:* Return, return, O Shulammite; Return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulammite? As it were a dance of two companies.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7759.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7759/): 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).