Hebrew noun (feminine) · H7596
שְׁאֵלָה
sheelahsheh-ay-law'
petition
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shᵉʼêlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7596is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7596
a petition; by implication, a loan
The King James renders it: loan, petition, request.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sheelah is rendered "petition". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Six of the uses stand in Esther, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 8:24Then he added, “Let me make a request of you, that each of you give me an earring from his plunder.” (For the enemies had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
Then he added, “Let me make a request of you, that each of you give me an earring from his plunder.” (For the enemies had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)
Judges 8:24שְׁאֵלָ֔ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- petition my4
- petition your4
- a petition3
- for petition my1
- petition their1
- the petition1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- שְׁאֵ֣לָתִ֔י2
- בִּשְׁאֵ֣לָתִ֔י1
- הַשְּׁאֵלָ֔ה1
- שְׁאֵלָ֔ה1
- שְׁאֵלָ֤ה1
- שְׁאֵלָ֨ה1
- שְׁאֵלָתִ֖י1
- שֶֽׁאֱלָתִ֑י1
- שְּׁאֵלָתֵ֖ךְ1
- שְּׁאֵלָתֵ֛ךְ1
- שְּׁאֵֽלָתֵךְ֙1
- שֶׁאֱלָתָ֑ם1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular4HNcfsc/Sp1bs
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular4HNcfsc/Sp2fs
- noun · feminine singular3HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcfsc/Sp3mp
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Ncfsc/Sp1bs
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa
Judges
one use
Then he added, “Let me make a request of you, that each of you give me an earring from his plunder.” (For the enemies had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)
- שְׁאֵלָ֔הsheelahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a petition
1 Samuel
three uses
“Go in peace,” Eli replied, “and may the God of Israel grant the petition you have asked of Him.”
- שֵׁ֣לָתֵ֔ךְshelatekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: petition your
I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him,
- שְׁאֵ֣לָתִ֔יsheelatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: petition my
And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD.” Then they would go home.
- הַשְּׁאֵלָ֔הhasheelahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the petition
1 Kings
two uses
So now I have just one request of you; do not deny me.” “State your request,” she told him.
- שְׁאֵלָ֤הsheelahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a petition
“I have just one small request of you,” she said. “Do not deny me.” “Make your request, my mother,” the king replied, “for I will not deny you.”
- שְׁאֵלָ֨הsheelahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a petition
Esther
six uses
And as they drank their wine, the king said to Esther, “What is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”
- שְּׁאֵלָתֵ֖ךְsheelatekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: petition your
Esther replied, “This is my petition and my request:
- שְׁאֵלָתִ֖יsheelatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: petition my
If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”
- שְׁאֵ֣לָתִ֔יsheelatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: petition my
and as they drank their wine on that second day, the king asked once more, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”
- שְּׁאֵלָתֵ֛ךְsheelatekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: petition your
Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.
- בִּשְׁאֵ֣לָתִ֔יbishelatipreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: for petition my
who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”
- שְּׁאֵֽלָתֵךְ֙sheelatekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: petition your
Job
one use
If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:
- שֶֽׁאֱלָתִ֑יsheelatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: petition my
Psalms
one use
So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.
- שֶׁאֱלָתָ֑םsheelatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: petition their
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.