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# שִׁלֹה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7887

**Shiloh** — used 32 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

Shiloh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7887/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁלוֹ: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7887/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (orig. שִׁלוֹן, v. adj.gent. (otherwise BaNB § 224 b), which also shews that √ שׁול, שׁיל, was posited when text of K was fixed, cf. Dr 2 S 15:12);—שִׁלוֹ Ju 21:19; 1 S 1:24; 3:21; 14:3; Je 7:14 (on destruction of S. v. We 2 S 8:17), 26:9; 41:5, מִשְׁכַּן שׁ׳ ψ 78:60; שִׁילוֹ Ju 21:21(×2); Je 7:12; שִׁלֹה Jos 18:1, 8, 9, 10; 19:51; 21:2; 22:9, 12 (all P or R), Ju 18:31; 21:12; 1 S 1:3, 9; 2:14; 3:21; 4:3, 4, 12; 1 K 2:27; 14:2, 4; Je 26:6 (var. שִׁלוֹ in all these \[21 times\] given by Gi as Qr).—Σηλωμ, Σηλω(ν).—Mod. Seilûn, c. 9½ m. NNE. of Bethel, BuhlG. 178 DrHast.DB shiloh. Also תַּאֲנַתשִׁלֹה; s. p. 1061.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 30 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shiloh (29); of Shiloh (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 78:60](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.60/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.60/#tree)

וַ֭יִּטֹּשׁ מִשְׁכַּ֣ן שִׁל֑וֹ אֹ֝֗הֶל שִׁכֵּ֥ן בָּאָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.abandoned the.tabernacle of.Shiloh \[the\].tent \[which\].he.had.pitched among (the) humankind

*JPS 1917:* And He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which He had made to dwell among men;

[Judges 18:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.18.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.18.31/#tree)

וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ לָהֶ֔ם אֶת־פֶּ֥סֶל מִיכָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֑ה כָּל־יְמֵ֛י הֱי֥וֹת בֵּית־הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and they.set.up for themselves (et) the.carved.image of.Micah which he.had.made all the.days of.the.being of.the.house of.(the) God at Shiloh

*JPS 1917:* So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7887/): 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).