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# שָׁלֵיו

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7961

**ease** — 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

ease [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7961/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁלֵו: adj. quiet, at ease [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7961/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (LagBN 43), שָׁלֵיו, שְׁלֵיו adj. quiet, at ease;— of pers. at ease, שָׁלֵו Jb 16:12, שָׁלֵיו 21:23 (Köii. 1, 83); of nation, שְׁלֵיו (poss. diminutive Köii. 1. 144) Je 49:31 (‖ יוֹשֵׁב לָבֶטַח); prosperous, of city fs. שְׁלִוָה Zc 7:7; of wicked, mpl. cstr. וְשַׁלְוֵי עוֹלָם ψ 73:12 (RenanH. iii. 131 proposes יִשְׁלָיוּ עֲוִילִים). of land, quiet, שְׁלֵוָה 1 Ch 4:40 (‖ שֹׁקֶטֶת). in לֹא יָדַע שָׁלֵו בְּבִטְנוֹ Jb 20:20 שׁ׳ is appar. n.abstr. quiet, ease, so Di De al., read שַׁלְוָה Siegf Bu, Du (after 𝔊) לֹא שָׁלֵו בְּמַטְמֹנוֹ; שָׁלֵו Ez 23:42 is corrupt, Hi Co Berthol (cf. Da) שָׁרוּ sang, Toy שָׁרִים, Krae שִׁרִים.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 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: at ease (7); ease (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 73:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.12/#tree)

הִנֵּה־אֵ֥לֶּה רְשָׁעִ֑ים וְשַׁלְוֵ֥י ע֝וֹלָ֗ם הִשְׂגּוּ־חָֽיִל׃

*Word for word:* here! these \[are\].wicked.\[people\] and.\[people\] at.ease of.perpetuity they.increase wealth

*JPS 1917:* Behold, such are the wicked; and they that are always at ease increase riches.

[Job 21:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.23/#tree)

זֶ֗ה יָ֭מוּת בְּעֶ֣צֶם תֻּמּ֑וֹ כֻּ֝לּ֗וֹ שַׁלְאֲנַ֥ן וְשָׁלֵֽיו׃

*Word for word:* this.\[one\] he.will.die in the.substance his.completeness his of.him all \[is\].at.ease and at.ease

*JPS 1917:* One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7961.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7961/): 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).