Strong's Hebrew · H7973
H7973 shelach
שֶׁלַח
sheh'-lakh
missile
shelach appears 8 times in Scripture, in 2 Chronicles, Nehemiah, Job, Song of Solomon and Joel. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a missile of attack, i.e. spear; also (figuratively) a shoot of growth; i.e. branch
In the King James Version
dart, plant, × put off, sword, weapon.
Derivation
from H7971 (שָׁלַח);
Appears 8 times in Scripture
“to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.”
“Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard,”
“So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the guards with me changed out of our clothes; each carried his weapon, even to go for water.”
“They do not jostle one another; each proceeds in his path. They burst through the defenses, never breaking ranks.”
“who were rebuilding the wall. The laborers who carried materials worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other.”
“But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.”
“Then Hezekiah worked resolutely to rebuild all the broken sections of the wall and to raise up towers on it. He also built an outer wall and reinforced the supporting terraces of the City of David, and he produced an abundance of weapons and shields.”
“He stationed all the troops, with their weapons in hand, surrounding the king by the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
