Word Study · Strong's H7921 · Hebrew
שָׁכֹל
shakol
shaw-kole'
Strong's 1890 spelling: shâkôl
“properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)
Rendered in the KJV as
bereave (of children), barren, cast calf (fruit, young), be (make) childless, deprive, destroy, [idiom] expect, lose children, miscarry, rob of children, spoil.
- 23occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 12 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 23inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 23 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 23
- אֶשְׁכַּ֛ל1
- וּמְשַׁכֶּ֥לֶת1
- וּמְשַׁכָּֽלֶת׃1
- וְשִׁכְּלָ֣ה1
- וְשִׁכְּלֻ֔ךְ1
- וְשִׁכְּלָ֑תָּה1
- וְשִׁכַּלְתִּ֖ים1
- לְשַׁכְּלָֽם׃ ס1
- מַשְׁכִּ֔יל1
- מְשַׁכֵּלָ֥ה1
- מְשַׁכָּֽלֶת׃1
- שִׁכְּלָ֤ה1
and 11 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 22
- I have been bereaved2
- [is] causing abortions1
- [which] miscarry1
- and abortion1
- and bereaving1
- and I will bereave them1
- and it will make childless1
- and it will make childless it1
- and they will make childless you1
- I have made childless1
- it has bereaved1
- it has made childless1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 18
- verb · intensive (piel), ongoing or future action · 3rd person feminine singular3
- verb · intensive (piel), completed action · 3rd person feminine singular2
- verb · intensive (piel), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singular2
- verb · simple (qal), completed action · 1st person common singular2
- Hc/Vpq1cs/Sp3mp1
- Hc/Vpq3cp/Sp2fs1
- Hc/Vpq3fs1
- Hc/Vpq3fs/Sp3fs1
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singular1
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HVpi3fs · 3
- HVpp3fs · 2
- HVprfsa · 2
- HVqp1cs · 2
- Hc/Vpq1cs/Sp3mp · 1
- Hc/Vpq3cp/Sp2fs · 1
- Hc/Vpq3fs · 1
- Hc/Vpq3fs/Sp3fs · 1
- HC/Vprfsa · 1
- HC/Vprfsc · 1
- HR/Vpcc/Sp3mp · 1
- HVhrmsa · 1
All 23, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Genesis5 occurrences
- Genesis 27:45אֶשְׁכַּ֛לʾeshkalverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 1st person common singularuntil your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”here: will I be bereaved
- Genesis 31:38שִׁכֵּ֑לוּshikeluverb · intensive (piel), completed action · 3rd person common pluralI have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.here: they have miscarried
- Genesis 42:36שִׁכַּלְתֶּ֑םshikaltemverb · intensive (piel), completed action · 2nd person masculine pluralTheir father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”here: you are making childless
- Genesis 43:14שָׁכֹ֖לְתִּיshakholetiverb · simple (qal), completed action · 1st person common singularMay God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”here: I have been bereaved
- Genesis 43:14שָׁכָֽלְתִּי׃shakhaltiverb · simple (qal), completed action · 1st person common singularMay God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”here: I have been bereaved
1 Samuel2 occurrences
- 1 Samuel 15:33שִׁכְּלָ֤הshikelahverb · intensive (piel), completed action · 3rd person feminine singularBut Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.here: it has made childless
- 1 Samuel 15:33תִּשְׁכַּ֥לtishkalverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person feminine singularBut Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.here: she will become childless
2 Kings2 occurrences
- 2 Kings 2:19מְשַׁכָּֽלֶת׃meshakaletverb · intensive (piel), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularThen the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please note, our lord, that the city’s location is good, as you can see. But the water is bad and the land is unfruitful.”here: [is] causing abortions
- 2 Kings 2:21וּמְשַׁכָּֽלֶת׃umeshakaletconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularand Elisha went out to the spring, cast the salt into it, and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will it cause death or unfruitfulness.’”here: and abortion
Ezekiel5 occurrences
- Ezekiel 5:17וְשִׁכְּלֻ֔ךְveshikelukhHc/Vpq3cp/Sp2fsI will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”here: and they will make childless you
- Ezekiel 14:15וְשִׁכְּלָ֑תָּהveshikelatahHc/Vpq3fs/Sp3fsOr if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,here: and it will make childless it
- Ezekiel 36:12לְשַׁכְּלָֽם׃ סleshakelampreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluralYes, I will cause My people Israel to walk upon you; they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will no longer deprive them of their children.here: to bereave them
- Ezekiel 36:13וּמְשַׁכֶּ֥לֶתumeshakeletconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)For this is what the Lord GOD says: Because people say to you, ‘You devour men and deprive your nation of its children,’here: and bereaving
- Ezekiel 36:14תְשַׁכְּלִיtekhasheli-verb · intensive (piel), ongoing or future action · 2nd person feminine singulartherefore you will no longer devour men or deprive your nation of its children, declares the Lord GOD.here: you will bereave
Hosea2 occurrences
- Hosea 9:12וְשִׁכַּלְתִּ֖יםveshikaltimHc/Vpq1cs/Sp3mpEven if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!here: and I will bereave them
- Hosea 9:14מַשְׁכִּ֔ילmashkilverb · causative (hiphil), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singularGive them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!here: [which] miscarry