Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H7956
שֵׁלָה
Shelahshay-law'
Shelah
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Shêlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7956is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7956
Shelah, the name of a postdiluvian patriarch and of an Israelite
The King James renders it: Shelah.
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
Shelah is rendered "Shelah". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Five of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 38:5Then she gave birth to another son and named him Shelah; it was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Then she gave birth to another son and named him Shelah; it was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.
Genesis 38:5שֵׁלָ֑ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's eight uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Shelah4
- and Shelah2
- of Shelah1
- to Shelah1
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 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- שֵׁלָ֣ה2
- וְשֵׁלָ֖ה1
- וְשֵׁלָ֔ה1
- לְשֵׁלָ֣ה1
- לְשֵׁלָ֗ה1
- שֵׁלָ֑ה1
- שֵׁלָ֔ה1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)4HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2HC/Npm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2HR/Npm
Genesis
five uses
Then she gave birth to another son and named him Shelah; it was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.
- שֵׁלָ֑הshelahproper noun (a name)tagged: Shelah
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.
- שֵׁלָ֣הshelahproper noun (a name)tagged: Shelah
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.
- שֵׁלָ֔הshelahproper noun (a name)tagged: Shelah
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.
- לְשֵׁלָ֣הleshelahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Shelah
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.
- וְשֵׁלָ֖הveshelahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Shelah
Numbers
one use
These were the descendants of Judah by their clans: The Shelanite clan from Shelah, the Perezite clan from Perez, and the Zerahite clan from Zerah.
- לְשֵׁלָ֗הleshelahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Shelah
1 Chronicles
two uses
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.
- וְשֵׁלָ֔הveshelahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Shelah
The sons of Shelah son of Judah:
- שֵׁלָ֣הshelahproper noun (a name)tagged: Shelah
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.