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# שֵׁלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7956

**Shelah** — used 8 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

Shelah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7956/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׁלָה²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7956/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Judah, Σηλωμ\[ν\]: Gn 38:5, 11, 14, 26 (J), 46:12 (P); Nu 26:20 (P), 1 Ch 2:3; 4:21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shelah (7); of Shelah (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 4:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.21/#tree)

בְּנֵי֙ שֵׁלָ֣ה בֶן־יְהוּדָ֔ה עֵ֚ר אֲבִ֣י לֵכָ֔ה וְלַעְדָּ֖ה אֲבִ֣י מָרֵשָׁ֑ה וּמִשְׁפְּח֛וֹת בֵּית־עֲבֹדַ֥ת הַבֻּ֖ץ לְבֵ֥ית אַשְׁבֵּֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Shelah the.son of.Judah \[were\].Er the.father of.Lecah and Laadah the.father of.Mareshah and the.clans of.the.house of.the.work of.(the) fine.linen of the.house of.Ashbea

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Ladah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;

[Genesis 38:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.5/#tree)

וַתֹּ֤סֶף עוֹד֙ וַתֵּ֣לֶד בֵּ֔ן וַתִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ שֵׁלָ֑ה וְהָיָ֥ה בִכְזִ֖יב בְּלִדְתָּ֥הּ אֹתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and she.repeated again and she.bore a.son and she.called (et) name his Shelah and he.was in Kezib when bore she him

*JPS 1917:* And she yet again bore a son, and called his name Shelah; and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7956.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7956/): 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).