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# שָׁלַג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7949

**snow** — 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

snow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7949/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁלַג: vb.denom. snow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7949/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. snow;—Impf. 3 fs. תַּשְׁלֵג (Ges§ 109 k), impers ψ 68:15 it snows on Ṣalmon (meaning obscure).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 68:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.15/#tree)

בְּפָ֘רֵ֤שׂ שַׁדַּ֓י מְלָ֘כִ֤ים בָּ֗הּ תַּשְׁלֵ֥ג בְּצַלְמֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* when scatters \[the\].Almighty kings in it let.it.snow on Zalmon

*JPS 1917:* When the Almighty scattereth kings therein, it snoweth in Zalmon.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7949.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7949/): 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).