Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8168
שֹׁעַל
shoalsho'-al
handful
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shôʻal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8168is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8168
the palm; by extension, a handful
The King James renders it: handful, hollow of the hand.
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
shoal is rendered "handful". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 20:10Then Ben-hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if enough dust remains of Samaria for each of my men to have a handful.”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Then Ben-hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if enough dust remains of Samaria for each of my men to have a handful.”
1 Kings 20:10לִשְׁעָלִ֕ים
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
- for handfuls1
- for handfuls of1
- in hollow of hand his1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שֹׁעָר | shoar | disgusting | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- בְּשָׁעֳל֜וֹ1
- בְּשַׁעֲלֵ֣י1
- לִשְׁעָלִ֕ים1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmpc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
1 Kings
one use
Then Ben-hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if enough dust remains of Samaria for each of my men to have a handful.”
- לִשְׁעָלִ֕יםlishalimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: for handfuls
Isaiah
one use
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?
- בְּשָׁעֳל֜וֹbeshoolopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: in hollow of hand his
Ezekiel
one use
You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived.
- בְּשַׁעֲלֵ֣יbeshaaleipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: for handfuls of
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.