1. שֶׁ֫לַח
missile, weapon, sprout
The corpus record — Hebrew
הַשֶּׁ֛לַח
shelach · n.[m.]
missile, weapon, sprout
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 8 · 0.26/10k
Senses
2. שֶׁלַח
a missile of attack, i.e. spear; also (figuratively) a shoot of growth; i.e. branch
Attestations
- הַ/שֶּׁ֛לַח Joel 2:8 (BHS)
- בַּ/שָּֽׁלַח Job 33:18 (BHS)
- בְּ/שֶׁ֣לַח Job 36:12 (BHS)
- שְׁלָחַ֨יִ/ךְ֙ Song of Songs 4:13 (BHS)
- הַ/שָּֽׁלַח Nehemiah 4:11 (BHS)
- שִׁלְח֥/וֹ Nehemiah 4:17 (BHS)
6 of 8 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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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.