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# שַׁלְוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7962

**quietness** — used 9 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

quietness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7962/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁלְוָה: n.f. quietness, ease [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7962/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. quietness, ease;—abs. שׁ׳ ψ 122:7 +; cstr. שַׁלְוַת Ez 16:49; Pr 1:32; pl. sf. שַׁלְוֹתַ֫יִךְ Je 22:21 (שַׁלְוָתֵךְ Vrss Gie);—quietness, peace, Pr 17:1 (opp. רִיב), ψ 122:7 (‖ שָׁלוֹם); ease, careless security, Ez 16:49 (שַׁלְוַת הַשְׁקֵט), Pr 1:32; prosperity, Je 22:21; בְּשׁ׳ in (time of) security (of sudden attack), if not unawares Dn 8:25; 11:21, 24 (Thes Ew Hi Ke al.); cf. ܡܶܢ ܣܒܶܠܝ lit. out of quiet, i.e. suddenly, unawares (e.g. 1 Macc 1:30 = ἐξάπινα), מִן שִׁלְיָא 𝔗 Pr 3:25; 6:15 (= פִּתְאֹם), ψ 30:7 v. \[שָׁ֫לוּ\].

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 122:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.122.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.122.7/#tree)

יְהִֽי־שָׁל֥וֹם בְּחֵילֵ֑ךְ שַׁ֝לְוָ֗ה בְּאַרְמְנוֹתָֽיִךְ׃

*Word for word:* may.it.be peace in rampart your security in fortresses your

*JPS 1917:* Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.

[Psalms 30:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.30.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.30.7/#tree)

וַ֭אֲנִי אָמַ֣רְתִּי בְשַׁלְוִ֑י בַּל־אֶמּ֥וֹט לְעוֹלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and I I.said in prosperity my not I.will.be.shaken forever of.perpetuity

*JPS 1917:* Now I had said in my security: 'I shall never be moved.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7962.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7962/): 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).