Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7973
שֶׁלַח
shelachsheh'-lakh
missile
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7973is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7973
a missile of attack, i.e. spear; also (figuratively) a shoot of growth; i.e. branch
The King James renders it: dart, plant, [idiom] put off, sword, weapon.
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
shelach is rendered "missile". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Chronicles 23:10He stationed all the troops, with their weapons in hand, surrounding the king by the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
He stationed all the troops, with their weapons in hand, surrounding the king by the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
2 Chronicles 23:10שִׁלְח֣וֹ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's eight uses are in 2 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the weapon2
- weapon his2
- by a missile1
- by the missile1
- shoots your1
- weapon1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שֶׁלֶם | shelem | peace offering | Uses87 |
| שֶׁלֶג | sheleg | snow | Uses20 |
| שֶׁלֶט | shelet | shield | Uses7 |
| שֶׁלֶו | shelev | prosperity | Uses1 |
| שֶׁל | shel | which | Usesnot recorded |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- בְּשֶׁ֣לַח1
- בַּשָּֽׁלַח׃1
- הַשֶּׁ֛לַח1
- הַשָּֽׁלַח׃1
- שֶׁ֛לַח1
- שִׁלְח֣וֹ1
- שִׁלְח֥וֹ1
- שְׁלָחַ֙יִךְ֙1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp2fs
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
2 Chronicles
two uses
He stationed all the troops, with their weapons in hand, surrounding the king by the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
- שִׁלְח֣וֹshilchonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: weapon his
Then Hezekiah worked resolutely to rebuild all the broken sections of the wall and to raise up towers on it. He also built an outer wall and reinforced the supporting terraces of the City of David, and he produced an abundance of weapons and shields.
- שֶׁ֛לַחshelachnoun · masculine singulartagged: weapon
Nehemiah
two uses
who were rebuilding the wall. The laborers who carried materials worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other.
- הַשָּֽׁלַח׃hashalachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the weapon
So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the guards with me changed out of our clothes; each carried his weapon, even to go for water.
- שִׁלְח֥וֹshilchonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: weapon his
Job
two uses
to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
- בַּשָּֽׁלַח׃bashalachpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: by the missile
But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
- בְּשֶׁ֣לַחbeshelachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: by a missile
Song of Solomon
one use
Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard,
- שְׁלָחַ֙יִךְ֙shelachayikhnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: shoots your
Joel
one use
They do not jostle one another; each proceeds in his path. They burst through the defenses, never breaking ranks.
- הַשֶּׁ֛לַחhashelachthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the weapon
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 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.