The corpus record — Hebrew

שְׁאֵ֔ל

sheel

‏שְאָל ‎Yahweh is able to 2C 259

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Distribution

Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 6 · 0.2/10k

Senses

1. שְאָל

‏שְאָל ‎Yahweh is able to 2C 259

2. שאל

to ask, inquire

3. שְׁאֵל

ask

4. שְׁאֵל

{to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand}

Attestations

שְׁאֵ֔ל Daniel 2:10 (BHS)
שָׁאֵל֙ Daniel 2:11 (BHS)
שָׁאֵ֔ל Daniel 2:27 (BHS)
שְׁאֵ֨לְנָא֙ Ezra 5:9 (BHS)
שְׁאֵ֥לְנָא Ezra 5:10 (BHS)
יִ֠שְׁאֲלֶנְ/כוֹן Ezra 7:21 (BHS)

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

Koehler-Baumgartner, The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (HALOT) scan p. 90; entry #370 Review: Under source audit
Klein, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language (Carta 1987) scan p. 658; entry #16328 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.