Hebrew adjective · H7909
שַׁכּוּל
shakkulshak-kool'
childless
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shakkûwl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7909is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7909
bereaved
The King James renders it: barren, bereaved (robbed) of children (whelps).
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
shakkul is rendered "childless". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Two of the uses stand in Song of Solomon, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 17:8He continued, “You know your father and his men. They are mighty men, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Moreover, your father is a man of war who will not spend the night with the troops.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
He continued, “You know your father and his men. They are mighty men, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Moreover, your father is a man of war who will not spend the night with the troops.
2 Samuel 17:8שַׁכּ֖וּל
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
- robbed of cubs3
- and deprived of offspring2
- bereaved1
- childless1
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 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- וְשַׁכֻּלָ֖ה2
- שַׁכּ֖וּל1
- שַׁכּ֣וּל1
- שַׁכּ֔וּל1
- שְׁכוּלָ֖ה1
- שַׁכֻּלוֹת֙1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular3HAamsa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singular2HC/Aafsa
- adjective · feminine plural1HAafpa
- adjective · feminine singular1HAafsa
2 Samuel
one use
He continued, “You know your father and his men. They are mighty men, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Moreover, your father is a man of war who will not spend the night with the troops.
- שַׁכּ֖וּלshakuladjective · masculine singulartagged: robbed of cubs
Proverbs
one use
It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.
- שַׁכּ֣וּלshakuladjective · masculine singulartagged: robbed of cubs
Song of Solomon
two uses
Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.
- וְשַׁכֻּלָ֖הveshakulahconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: and deprived of offspring
Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.
- וְשַׁכֻּלָ֖הveshakulahconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: and deprived of offspring
Isaiah
one use
Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”
- שְׁכוּלָ֖הshekhulahadjective · feminine singulartagged: bereaved
Jeremiah
one use
Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
- שַׁכֻּלוֹת֙shakulotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: childless
Hosea
one use
Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart.
- שַׁכּ֔וּלshakuladjective · masculine singulartagged: robbed of cubs
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.