Word Study · Strong's H7887 · Hebrew
שִׁילֹה
Shiloh
shee-lo'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Shîylôh
“Shiloh, a place in Palestine”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Shiloh, a place in Palestine
Rendered in the KJV as
Shiloh.
- 32occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 6 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 24inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 32 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 24
- שִׁלֹ֔ה5
- בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃2
- בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃ פ2
- בְּשִׁל֖וֹ2
- שִׁל֑וֹ2
- בְּשִׁיל֔וֹ1
- בְשִׁלֹ֖ה1
- בְשִׁלֹ֑ה1
- בְּשִׁלֹ֖ה1
- בְּשִׁלֹה֙1
- בְּשִׁלֹ֗ה1
- בְּשִׁלֹ֑ה1
and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 8
- Shiloh12
- at Shiloh7
- in Shiloh5
- from Shiloh3
- like Shiloh2
- [is] in Shiloh1
- [was] in Shiloh1
- to Shiloh1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- preposition + proper noun (a name)20
- proper noun (a name)12
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HR/Npl · 20
- HNpl · 12
All 32, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- 1 Samuel10 of 32 · 31%
- Joshua8 of 32 · 25%
- Judges5 of 32 · 16%
- Jeremiah5 of 32 · 16%
- 1 Kings3 of 32 · 9%
1 Samuel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Joshua8 occurrences
- Joshua 18:1שִׁלֹ֔הshilohproper noun (a name)Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,here: Shiloh
- Joshua 18:8בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃beshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)As the men got up to go out, Joshua commanded them to map out the land, saying, “Go and survey the land, map it out, and return to me. Then I will cast lots for you here in Shiloh in the presence of the LORD.”here: in Shiloh
- Joshua 18:9שִׁלֹֽה׃shilohproper noun (a name)So the men departed and went throughout the land, mapping it city by city into seven portions. Then they returned with the document to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.here: Shiloh
- Joshua 18:10בְּשִׁלֹ֖הbeshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)And Joshua cast lots for them in the presence of the LORD at Shiloh, where he distributed the land to the Israelites according to their divisions.here: in Shiloh
- Joshua 19:51בְּשִׁלֹה֙beshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families distributed by lot to the tribes of Israel at Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing up the land.here: at Shiloh
- Joshua 21:2בְּשִׁלֹ֗הbeshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said to them, “The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities in which to live, together with pasturelands for our livestock.”here: at Shiloh
- Joshua 22:9מִשִּׁלֹ֖הmishilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)So the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to their own land of Gilead, which they had acquired according to the command of the LORD through Moses.here: from Shiloh
- Joshua 22:12שִׁלֹ֔הshilohproper noun (a name)And when they heard this, the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them.here: Shiloh
Judges5 occurrences
- Judges 18:31בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃ פbeshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.here: at Shiloh
- Judges 21:12שִׁלֹ֔הshilohproper noun (a name)So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.here: Shiloh
- Judges 21:19בְּשִׁל֜וֹbeshilopreposition + proper noun (a name)“But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”here: [is] in Shiloh
- Judges 21:21שִׁילוֹ֮shiloproper noun (a name)and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.here: Shiloh
- Judges 21:21שִׁיל֑וֹshiloproper noun (a name)and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.here: Shiloh
1 Samuel10 occurrences
- 1 Samuel 1:3בְּשִׁלֹ֑הbeshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.here: at Shiloh
- 1 Samuel 1:9בְשִׁלֹ֖הveshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)So after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.here: in Shiloh
- 1 Samuel 1:24שִׁל֑וֹshiloproper noun (a name)Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh.here: Shiloh
- 1 Samuel 2:14בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃beshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)and plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. And the priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh.here: at Shiloh
- 1 Samuel 3:21בְשִׁלֹ֑הveshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)And the LORD continued to appear at Shiloh, because there He revealed Himself to Samuel by His word.here: at Shiloh
- 1 Samuel 3:21בְּשִׁל֖וֹbeshilopreposition + proper noun (a name)And the LORD continued to appear at Shiloh, because there He revealed Himself to Samuel by His word.here: at Shiloh
- 1 Samuel 4:3מִשִּׁלֹ֗הmishilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why has the LORD brought defeat on us before the Philistines today? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that it may go with us to save us from the hand of our enemies.”here: from Shiloh
- 1 Samuel 4:4שִׁלֹ֔הshilohproper noun (a name)So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.here: Shiloh
- 1 Samuel 4:12שִׁלֹ֖הshilohproper noun (a name)That same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line all the way to Shiloh, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.here: Shiloh
- 1 Samuel 14:3בְּשִׁל֖וֹbeshilopreposition + proper noun (a name)including Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh. But the troops did not know that Jonathan had left.here: in Shiloh
1 Kings3 occurrences
- 1 Kings 2:27בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃ פbeshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.here: in Shiloh
- 1 Kings 14:2שִׁלֹ֗הshilohproper noun (a name)and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Now get up, disguise yourself so they will not recognize you as my wife, and go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who spoke about my kingship over this people.here: Shiloh
- 1 Kings 14:4שִׁלֹ֔הshilohproper noun (a name)Jeroboam’s wife did as instructed; she arose and went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.here: Shiloh
Psalms1 occurrence
Jeremiah5 occurrences
- Jeremiah 7:12בְּשִׁיל֔וֹbeshilopreposition + proper noun (a name)But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.here: [was] in Shiloh
- Jeremiah 7:14לְשִׁלֽוֹ׃leshilopreposition + proper noun (a name)therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.here: to Shiloh
- Jeremiah 26:6כְּשִׁלֹ֑הkeshilohpreposition + proper noun (a name)then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’”here: like Shiloh
- Jeremiah 26:9כְּשִׁלוֹ֙keshilopreposition + proper noun (a name)How dare you prophesy in the name of the LORD that this house will become like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted!” And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.here: like Shiloh
- Jeremiah 41:5מִשִּׁל֤וֹmishilopreposition + proper noun (a name)eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, carrying grain offerings and frankincense for the house of the LORD.here: from Shiloh
Same headword in Strong's