Word Study · Strong's H7956 · Hebrew
שֵׁלָה
Shelah
shay-law'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Shêlâh
“Shelah, the name of a postdiluvian patriarch and of an Israelite”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Shelah, the name of a postdiluvian patriarch and of an Israelite
Rendered in the KJV as
Shelah.
- 8occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 3 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 7inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 8 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 7
- שֵׁלָ֣ה2
- וְשֵׁלָ֖ה1
- וְשֵׁלָ֔ה1
- לְשֵׁלָ֣ה1
- לְשֵׁלָ֗ה1
- שֵׁלָ֑ה1
- שֵׁלָ֔ה1
How it is rendered · 4
- Shelah4
- and Shelah2
- of Shelah1
- to Shelah1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- proper noun (a name)4
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpm · 4
- HC/Npm · 2
- HR/Npm · 2
All 8, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Genesis5 occurrences
- Genesis 38:5שֵׁלָ֑הshelahproper noun (a name)Then she gave birth to another son and named him Shelah; it was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.here: Shelah
- Genesis 38:11שֵׁלָ֣הshelahproper noun (a name)Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.here: Shelah
- Genesis 38:14שֵׁלָ֔הshelahproper noun (a name)she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.here: Shelah
- Genesis 38:26לְשֵׁלָ֣הleshelahpreposition + proper noun (a name)Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.here: to Shelah
- Genesis 46:12וְשֵׁלָ֖הveshelahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.here: and Shelah
1 Chronicles2 occurrences
- 1 Chronicles 2:3וְשֵׁלָ֔הveshelahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, who put him to death.here: and Shelah
- 1 Chronicles 4:21שֵׁלָ֣הshelahproper noun (a name)The sons of Shelah son of Judah:here: Shelah