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Lexicon :: Strong's H7592 - šā'al

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שָׁאַל
Transliteration
šā'al
Pronunciation
shaw-al'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2303

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁאַל shâʼal, shaw-al'; or שָׁאֵל shâʼêl; a primitive root; to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand:—ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, × earnestly, enquire, greet, obtain leave, lend, pray, request, require, salute, × straitly, × surely, wish.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 173x

The KJV translates Strong's H7592 in the following manner: ask (94x), enquire (22x), desire (9x), require (7x), borrow (6x), salute (4x), demand (4x), lent (4x), request (3x), earnestly (2x), beg (2x), miscellaneous (16x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 173x
The KJV translates Strong's H7592 in the following manner: ask (94x), enquire (22x), desire (9x), require (7x), borrow (6x), salute (4x), demand (4x), lent (4x), request (3x), earnestly (2x), beg (2x), miscellaneous (16x).
  1. to ask, enquire, borrow, beg

    1. (Qal)

      1. to ask, ask for

      2. to ask (as a favour), borrow

      3. to enquire, enquire of

      4. to enquire of, consult (of deity, oracle)

      5. to seek

    2. (Niphal) to ask for oneself, ask leave of absence

    3. (Piel)

      1. to enquire, enquire carefully

      2. to beg, practise beggary

    4. (Hiphil)

      1. to be given on request

      2. to grant, make over to, let (one) ask (successfully) or give or lend on request (then) grant or make over to

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁאַל shâʼal, shaw-al'; or שָׁאֵל shâʼêl; a primitive root; to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand:—ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, × earnestly, enquire, greet, obtain leave, lend, pray, request, require, salute, × straitly, × surely, wish.
STRONGS H7592: Abbreviations
שָׁאַל 170 verb ask, inquire (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian ša’âlu, Arabic bdb098101, Ethiopic bdb098102 Sabean מסאל request petition, HomChrest. 124 Levy-OsZMG xix(1865), 165; Aramaic bdb098103, שְׁאֵיל; Old Aramaic Zinjirli שאל Ldzb371, Nabataean Hiph. lend Idib.; — on שׁ׳ compare JastrJBL xix (1900), 82 ff.); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singularשׁ׳ Judges 5:25 +, שָׁאָ֑ל Judges 8:26 + 2 times; consecutive וְשָׁ֫אַל לוֺ Numbers 27:21; suffix וּשְׁאֵלְךָ consecutive Genesis 32:18 (Ges§ 64 f), וּשְׁאֵלֵךְ consecutive Judges 4:20; 1st person singular suffix שְׁאִלְתִּיו 1 Samuel 1:20, שְׁאִלְתִּיהוּ Judges 13:16; 3rd person plural suffix שְׁאֵלוּנוּ Psalm 137:3; 2nd person masculine plural שְׁאֶלְתֶּם 1 Samuel 12:13 (strike out Greek Version of the LXX Th We Dr and most), Job 21:29, וּשְׁאֶלָתֶּםֿ consecutive 1 Samuel 25:5, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשְׁאַל Exodus 22:13 +,etc.; Imperative שְׁאַל Isaiah 7:11 +, שְׁאָלוּנִי Isaiah 45:11 (< תִּשְׁאְֵלוּנִי Weir Che and others), etc.; Infinitive absolute שָׁאוֺל Genesis 43:7 +; construct לִשְׁאֹל Judges 1:14 +, etc.; Participle active שֹׁאֵל 2 Samuel 3:13 +, feminine singular שֹׁאֶלֶת 1 Kings 2:20, 22, masculine plural הַשֹּׁאֲלִים 1 Samuel 8:10; passive שָׁאוּל 1 Samuel 1:28; 2 Kings 6:5; —
1.
a. ask, ask for, accusative of thing (or person) Judges 5:25; Judges 8:26; 1 Kings 3:10; Psalm 122:6 (= pray for) +; אֶתנַֿפְשׁוֺ לָמוּת שׁ׳ 1 Kings 19:4; Jonah 4:8, i.e. pray for death, but Job 31:30 demand the life of another בְּאָלָה by a curse; with ל person 1 Kings 2:22 (twice in verse) + (ל person reflexive) 1 Samuel 12:17, 19 +; with מִן person Judges 8:24 (accusative of congnate meaning with verb), Ezra 8:22; Zechariah 10:1 +; followed by infinitive 1 Kings 3:11; followed by clause מָה אֶתֶּןלָֽֿךְ׃ שׁ׳ 1 Kings 3:5 2 Chronicles 1:7, compare 2 Kings 2:9; with accusative + מֵאֵת person 1 Samuel 8:10; Psalm 27:4 (from י׳) +; + מֵעִם person Isaiah 7:11 (from י׳) +; with accusative of person (from whom) + of thing Psalm 137:3; accusative omitted Isaiah 7:12; 1 Samuel 12:20; 1 Kings 2:20, with מִן person Psalm 2:8; absolute Micah 7:3; Psalm 105:40 (of prayer); הִקְשִׁיתָ לִשְׁאוֺל 2 Kings 2:10, i.e. thou hast asked for a difficult thing. — 1 Samuel 2:20 see Hiph.
b. specifically ask as a favour, for temporary use, i.e. borrow (compare לָוָה, as matter of business, see Bu1 Samuel 1:28), Exodus 22:13 (E; accusative of thing + מֵעִם person), 2 Kings 4:3 (accusative of thing + מִן of source + ל person reflexive), 2 Kings 6:5 (passive participle absolute); so also (according to many), with accusative of thing Exodus 3:22 (+ מִן person), Exodus 11:2; Exodus 12:35 (both + מֵאֵת person; all E), — it is, however, not clear that there was any pretext of mere temporary use; passive participle שָׁאוּל לי׳ 1 Samuel 1:28 (lent, granted,) made over to י׳ (in effect passive of Hiph., which see).
c. in weakened sense, seek, desire (late), with accusative 2 Chronicles 11:23; Ecclesiastes 2:10 (subject עֵינַי); Proverbs 20:4 in harvest he shall look [for a crop], וָאָ֑יִן and there shall be none.
2.
a. inquire of, with accusative of person + לֵאמֹר before inquiry Genesis 32:18 (E), Genesis 44:19 (J) +; with וְאָמַר Judges 4:20, וַיּאִמֶר, etc., Genesis 24:47(J), Jeremiah 37:13; followed by וְאָמַר without accusative of person Genesis 32:30 (J), compare 1 Samuel 19:22, followed by לֵאמֹר Joshua 4:6 (JE); with accusative of person + עַל of thing Nehemiah 1:2; עַל of thing alone, Ecclesiastes 7:10 (+ מֵחָכְמָה, i. e. prompted by wisdom); with accusative of person + of thing (about which) 2 Samuel 14:18; Isaiah 45:11 + 4 times; accusative of person + indirect question Judges 13:6; with accusative of person only, Judges 8:14; 1 Samuel 25:8; Deuteronomy 32:7 +, inquire of beasts (accusative) Job 12:7; with accusative of thing only, Jeremiah 50:5; with ל person = accusative 2 Kings 8:6 (KöSynt. § 289 h); with ל of thing about which Genesis 26:7 (J), Genesis 32:30 (J), Judges 13:18; 2 Samuel 11:7; Jeremiah 6:16; Job 8:8, also (+ לאמר before the inquiry) Genesis 43:7 (J), and (followed by direct question) Deuteronomy 4:32; with ל person about whom, Genesis 43:27 (J), compare phrase of greeting, אִישׁ לְרֵעֵהוּ לְשָׁלוֺם שׁ׳ Exodus 18:7 (E) ask each for (or about) his fellow as to welfare, compare Judges 18:15; 1 Samuel 10:4; 1 Samuel 17:22; 1 Samuel 25:5; 1 Samuel 30:21 [read וַיִּשְׁאֲלוּ לוֺ Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version We Dr HPS Bu] 2 Samuel 8:10; Jeremiah 15:5; 1 Chronicles 18:10; followed by direct question only, 1 Samuel 17:56; Jeremiah 18:13 (with ב location), followed by indirect question only (with אִם) Jeremiah 30:6; אֶת־פִּי שׁ'פ׳ Genesis 24:57(J); absolute make inquiry Deuteronomy 13:15 (+ דָּרַשׁ, חָקַר).
†b. inquire of, consult, deity, oracle, etc. (JastrJBL xix (1900) 88 ff.), followed by accusative י'פִּי Joshua 9:14 (JE), Isaiah 30:2 י׳ Isaiah 65:1 (|| בִּקֵּשׁ); elsewhere in Hexateuch only (accusative omitted), Numbers 27:21 (P; with ל person for whom, + ב instrumental), compare Joshua 19:50; also אוֺב שׁ׳ Deuteronomy 18:11 (participle as substantive; JägerBAS ii. 292 compare Assyrian maššaku ša šâ’ili, i.e. skin-vessel of the oracle-seeker, compare JastrJBL xix (1900), 96 ff.); with accusative of human agent 1 Samuel 28:16; Jeremiah 38:14, 27; usually (ancient usage, chiefly Judges, Samuel) לֵאמֹר בי׳ שׁ׳ (בְּ perhaps originally local, so GFM, or instrumental), Judges 1:1; Judges 20:23; 1 Samuel 23:2; 1 Samuel 30:8; 2 Samuel 2:1; 2 Samuel 5:19 = 1 Chronicles 14:10; לֵאמֹר omitted 1 Samuel 10:22 (followed by direct question), 1 Samuel 22:10 (ל person for whom), 1 Samuel 23:4; 1 Samuel 28:6; 2 Samuel 5:23 = 1 Chronicles 14:14; Judges 20:27; בֵּאלֹהִים שׁ׳ Judges 18:5; Judges 20:18; 1 Samuel 14:37; (followed by direct question), also (ל person for whom), 1 Samuel 22:13, 15; שׁ׳ בִּדְבַר הָא׳ 2 Samuel 16:23; likewise בְּעֵצוֺ שׁ׳ Hosea 4:12 (i.e. his idol), בַּתְּרָפִים Ezekiel 21:26, בָּאוֺב 1 Chronicles 10:13; perhaps = receive as oracle Deuteronomy 18:16 (מֵעִם י׳, Jastrl.c.
Niph. ask for oneself (Ges§ 51 e), specifically ask leave of absence, with מִן person: Perfect 3rd person masculine singular + Infinitive absolute נִשְׁאֹל נִשְׁאַל 1 Samuel 20:6 (followed by infinitive), 1 Samuel 20:28 (followed by עַד; ? insert ל infinitive HPS); Perfect 1st person singular נִשְׁאַלְתִּי מִןהַֿמֶּלֶךְ Nehemiah 13:6 (absolute).
Pi.
1. inquire carefully: Imperfect 3rd person masculine plural + Qal Infinitive absolute שָׁאוֺל יְשָֽׁאֲלוּ 2 Samuel 20:18 (Bu proposes Qal Imperfect יִשְׁאֲלוּ), with ב location; on following context see We Dr HPS Bu.
2. beg, practise beggary,,Perfect 3rd person plural וְשִׁאֵ֑לוּ (consecutive) Psalm 109:10.
Hiph. (properly let one ask [successfully], give, or lend, on request, then) grant, make over to (as a favour, with or without request): Perfect 1st person singular suffix הִשְׁאִלְתִּהוּ לי׳ 1 Samuel 1:28 I have made him over to י׳ (compare Dr HPS Bu and Qal Passive participle, ib.); perhaps also read 3rd person feminine singular הִשְׁאִילָה לי׳ 1 Samuel 2:20 (whom) she hath made over to י׳ (for שָׁאַל לי׳) Bu HPS (after Greek Version of the LXX. in part; other conjectures in Dr); Imperfect 3rd person masculine plural suffix of thing וַיַּשְׁאִלוּם Exodus 12:36 (E) and they handed them over.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H7593.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

24:47; 24:57; 26:7; 32:18; 32:18; 32:30; 32:30; 43:7; 43:7; 43:27; 44:19

Exodus

3:22; 11:2; 12:35; 12:36; 18:7; 22:13; 22:13

Numbers

27:21; 27:21

Deuteronomy

4:32; 13:15; 18:11; 18:16; 32:7

Joshua

4:6; 9:14; 19:50

Judges

1:1; 1:14; 4:20; 4:20; 5:25; 5:25; 8:14; 8:24; 8:26; 8:26; 13:6; 13:16; 13:18; 18:5; 18:15; 20:18; 20:23; 20:27

1 Samuel

1:20; 1:28; 1:28; 1:28; 1:28; 2:20; 2:20; 8:10; 8:10; 10:4; 10:22; 12:13; 12:17; 12:19; 12:20; 14:37; 17:22; 17:56; 19:22; 20:6; 20:28; 22:10; 22:13; 22:15; 23:2; 23:4; 25:5; 25:5; 25:8; 28:6; 28:16; 30:8; 30:21

2 Samuel

2:1; 3:13; 5:19; 5:23; 8:10; 11:7; 14:18; 16:23; 20:18

1 Kings

2:20; 2:20; 2:22; 2:22; 3:5; 3:10; 3:11; 19:4

2 Kings

2:9; 2:10; 4:3; 6:5; 6:5; 8:6

1 Chronicles

10:13; 14:10; 14:14; 18:10

2 Chronicles

1:7; 11:23

Ezra

8:22

Nehemiah

1:2; 13:6

Job

8:8; 12:7; 21:29; 31:30

Psalms

2:8; 27:4; 105:40; 109:10; 122:6; 137:3; 137:3

Proverbs

20:4

Ecclesiastes

2:10; 7:10

Isaiah

7:11; 7:11; 7:12; 30:2; 45:11; 45:11; 65:1

Jeremiah

6:16; 15:5; 18:13; 30:6; 37:13; 38:14; 38:27; 50:5

Ezekiel

21:26

Hosea

4:12

Jonah

4:8

Micah

7:3

Zechariah

10:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7592 matches the Hebrew שָׁאַל (šā'al),
which occurs 176 times in 157 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 24:47–1Sa 1:28)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:47 - I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Betu'el, Nachor's son, whom Milkah bare to him.' I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:57 - They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, the men of the place might kill me for Rivka, because she was beautiful to look on.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:17 - He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esav, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:29 - Ya`akov asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:15 - A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, "What are you looking for?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:21 - Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at `Enayim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:7 - He asked Par`oh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:7 - They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:27 - He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:19 - My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:22 - But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall despoil the Mitzrim.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:2 - Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:35 - The children of Yisra'el did according to the word of Moshe; and they asked of the Mitzrim jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:36 - The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Mitzrim, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Mitzrim.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:14 - It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Mitzrayim, from the house of bondage;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:7 - Moshe went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:14 - "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, the owner of it not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:21 - He shall stand before El`azar the Kohen, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Yisra'el with him, even all the congregation.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the eretz, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:20 - When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD our God has commanded you?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:12 - Now, Yisra'el, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:14 - then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:26 - and you shall bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:11 - or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:16 - according to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horev in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:7 - Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask your father, and he will show you; Your Zakenim, and they will tell you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:6 - that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying, What do you mean by these stones?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:21 - He spoke to the children of Yisra'el, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:14 - The men took of their provision, and didn't ask counsel at the mouth of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:18 - It happened, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her donkey; and Kalev said, What would you?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:50 - according to the mitzvah of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnat-Serach in the hill-country of Efrayim; and he built the city, and lived therein.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:1 - It happened after the death of Yehoshua, the children of Yisra'el asked of the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Kana`anim, to fight against them?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:14 - It happened, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her donkey; and Kalev said to her, What would you?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:20 - He said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man does come and inquire of you, and say, Is there any man here? that you shall say, No.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:25 - He asked water, and she gave him milk; She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:14 - He caught a young man of the men of Sukkot, and inquired of him: and he described for him the princes of Sukkot, and the Zakenim of it, seventy-seven men.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:24 - Gid`on said to them, I would make a request of you, that you would give me every man the ear-rings of his spoil. (For they had golden ear-rings, because they were Yishme`elim.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:26 - The weight of the golden ear-rings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midyan, and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:6 - Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome; and I didn't ask him whence he was, neither did he tell me his name:
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:18 - The angel of the LORD said to him, Why do you ask after my name, seeing it is wonderful?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:5 - They said to him, Ask counsel, we pray you, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15 - They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Mikhah, and asked him of his welfare.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18 - The children of Yisra'el arose, and went up to Beit-El, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Binyamin? the LORD said, Yehudah shall go up first.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23 - The children of Yisra'el went up and wept before the LORD until even; and they asked of the LORD, saying, Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Binyamin my brother? the LORD said, Go up against him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:27 - The children of Yisra'el asked of the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:17 - Then `Eli answered, Go in shalom; and the God of Yisra'el grant your petition that you have asked of him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:20 - It happened, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Shemu'el, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:27 - For this child I prayed; and the LORD has given me my petition which I asked of him:
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:28 - therefore also I have granted him to the LORD; as long as he lives he is granted to the LORD. He worshiped the LORD there.

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