Lexical Summary sheelah or shelah: request, thing asked for Original Word: שְׁאֵלָהTransliteration: sheelah or shelah Phonetic Spelling: (sheh-ay-law') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: request, thing asked for Meaning: request, thing asked for Strong's Concordance loan, petition, request Or shelah (1 Samuel 1:17) {shay-law'}; from sha'al; a petition; by implication, a loan -- loan, petition, request. see HEBREW sha'al Brown-Driver-Briggs H7596. sheelah or shelah שְׁאֵלָה [I. שֵׁלָה] noun feminine request, thing asked for: — ׳שְׁא Judges 8:24, +; suffix שְׁאֵלָתִּי 1 Samuel 1:27 +, שֶׁאֱלָתּי Job 6:8, שְׁאֵלָתֵךְ Esther 5:6 +, שֵׁלָתֵךְ 1 Samuel 1:17, שֶׁאֱלָתָם Psalm 106:15; — 1 request, petition, Judges 8:24; 1 Kings 2:16, 20 (both accusative of congnate meaning with verb with שָׁאַל), Esther 5:6-7, (with נָתַן = grant), 7:2-3, 9:12. This passes easily into 2 thing asked for, 1 Samuel 2:20, with נָתַן Esther 5:8; Psalm 106:15; שׁ ׳תָּבוֺא Job 6:8. — II.שֵׁלָה see below אֶשָׁתָּאֹל proper name, masculine, see above. |
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