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# שֶׁלֶט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7982

**shield** — used 7 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

shield [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7982/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׁ֫לֶט: n.m. shield Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7982/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 2 S 8:7 shield(?);—pl. שְׁלָטִים 2 K 11:10 +, cstr. שִׁלְטֵי 2 S 8:7 +; sf. שִׁלְטֵיהֶם Ez 27:11;—shields (so AV RV Thes; al. quivers, or \[v. especially BarnesExpos. T. x. 43 f. (cf. 188)\] arms, equipment; Vrss vary; Assyrian šalṭu (v. √) seems to be a specif. article), 2 S 8:7 = 1 Ch 18:7; 2 K 11:10 = 2 Ch 23:9 (where + מָגִנּוֹת, but) Ct 4:4 appos. of מָגֵן (q.v. sub גנן), hung on walls, cf. Ez 27:11; מִלְאוּ הַשּׁ׳ Je 51:11 i.e., perhaps, put arms through thongs, ready to use them (but v. Barnesl.c., and Gie, cf. מלא Qal 2).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: shields (4); the shields (3).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 8:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.8.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.8.7/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֣ח דָּוִ֗ד אֵ֚ת שִׁלְטֵ֣י הַזָּהָ֔ב אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָי֔וּ אֶ֖ל עַבְדֵ֣י הֲדַדְעָ֑זֶר וַיְבִיאֵ֖ם יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.took David (et) the.shields of.(the) gold which they.were to the.servants of.Hadadezer and he brought.them Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

[1 Chronicles 18:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.18.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.18.7/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֣ח דָּוִ֗יד אֵ֚ת שִׁלְטֵ֣י הַזָּהָ֔ב אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָי֔וּ עַ֖ל עַבְדֵ֣י הֲדַדְעָ֑זֶר וַיְבִיאֵ֖ם יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.took David (et) the.shields of.(the) gold which they.were on the.servants of.Hadadezer and he brought.them Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7982.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7982/): 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).