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# שָׁלַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7947

**be bound** — used 2 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

be bound [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7947/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁלַב: vb. be bound, joined [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7947/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be bound, joined (NH Pu. = BH; שְׁלִיבָה rung of ladder; Aramaic שְׁלִיבִין appar. only 1 K 7:28, 29, ܫܰܠܒܳܐ ravine, narrow path between mountains; Arabic سَلَبَ is seize, carry off, by force);—Pt. fpl. מְשֻׁלָּבֹת Ex 26:17 tenons joined each to (אֶל) its fellow, 36:22 (both P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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: joined (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 36:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.22/#tree)

שְׁתֵּ֣י יָדֹ֗ת לַקֶּ֙רֶשׁ֙ הָֽאֶחָ֔ד מְשֻׁלָּבֹ֔ת אַחַ֖ת אֶל־אֶחָ֑ת כֵּ֣ן עָשָׂ֔ה לְכֹ֖ל קַרְשֵׁ֥י הַמִּשְׁכָּֽן׃

*Word for word:* two hands \[belonged\].to the frame (the) one joined one to one thus he.did for all the.frames of the.tabernacle

*JPS 1917:* Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. Thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

[Exodus 26:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.17/#tree)

שְׁתֵּ֣י יָד֗וֹת לַקֶּ֙רֶשׁ֙ הָאֶחָ֔ד מְשֻׁלָּבֹ֔ת אִשָּׁ֖ה אֶל־אֲחֹתָ֑הּ כֵּ֣ן תַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה לְכֹ֖ל קַרְשֵׁ֥י הַמִּשְׁכָּֽן׃

*Word for word:* two hands \[will belong\] to.the.frame (the) one joined each to sister its thus you.will.do for all the.frames of the.tabernacle

*JPS 1917:* Two tenons shall there be in each board, joined one to another; thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7947.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7947/): 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).