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Lexicon :: Strong's H7956 - šēlâ

Aa
שֵׁלָה
Transliteration
šēlâ
Pronunciation
shay-law'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
The same as שְׁאֵלָה (H7596) (shortened)
Strong’s Definitions

שֵׁלָה Shêlâh, shay-law'; the same as H7596 (shortened); request; Shelah, the name of a postdiluvian patriarch and of an Israelite:—Shelah.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's H7956 in the following manner: Shelah (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's H7956 in the following manner: Shelah (8x).

  1. Shelah = "a petition"

    1. the youngest son of Judah

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֵׁלָה Shêlâh, shay-law'; the same as H7596 (shortened); request; Shelah, the name of a postdiluvian patriarch and of an Israelite:—Shelah.
STRONGS H7956: Abbreviations
† II. שֵׁלָה proper name, masculine son of Judah, Σηλωμ[ν]: Genesis 38:5, 11, 14, 26 (J), Genesis 46:12 (P); Numbers 26:20 (P), 1 Chronicles 2:3; 1 Chronicles 4:21.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

38:5; 38:11; 38:14; 38:26; 46:12

Numbers

26:20

1 Chronicles

2:3; 4:21

H7956

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7956 matches the Hebrew שֵׁלָה (šēlâ),
which occurs 8 times in 8 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:5 - Then she had another son, to whom she gave the name Shelah; she was at Chezib when the birth took place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11 - Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:14 - She took off her widow's clothing, and covering herself with her veil, she took her seat near Enaim on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was now a man, but she had not been made his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:26 - Then Judah said openly that they were his, and said, She is more upright than I am, for I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he had no more connection with her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:12 - And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah: but Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:20 - And the sons of Judah by their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelahites: of Perez, the family of the Perezites: of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:3 - The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah; these three were his sons by Bathshua, the Canaanite woman. And Er, Judah's oldest son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and he put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:21 - The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah, the father of Mareshah, and the families of those who made delicate linen, of the family of Ashbea;
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