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# שָׁלִשָׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8031

**Shalisha** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Shalisha [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8031/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁלִ֫שָׁה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8031/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. doubtful;—אֶרֶץ־שׁ׳ 1 S 9:4, B 𝔊L Σελχα, A Σαλισσα;? cf. בַּעַל שָׁלִשָׁה 2 K 4:42.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 9:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.9.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.9.4/#tree)

וַיַּעֲבֹ֧ר בְּהַר־אֶפְרַ֛יִם וַיַּעֲבֹ֥ר בְּאֶֽרֶץ־שָׁלִ֖שָׁה וְלֹ֣א מָצָ֑אוּ וַיַּעַבְר֤וּ בְאֶֽרֶץ־שַׁעֲלִים֙ וָאַ֔יִן וַיַּעֲבֹ֥ר בְּאֶֽרֶץ־יְמִינִ֖י וְלֹ֥א מָצָֽאוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.passed in the.hill.country of.Ephraim and he.passed in the.land of.Shalisha and not they.found.\[them\] and they.passed in the.land of.Shaalim and there.\[were\].not and he.passed in the.land of.\[the\].Jaminite\[s\] and not they.found.\[them\]

*JPS 1917:* And he passed through the hill-country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they found them not; then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they were not; and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8031.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8031/): 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).