Strong's Hebrew · H7973

שֶׁלַח

shelach · sheh'-lakh

dart, plant, [idiom] put off, sword, weapon.

Definition

a missile of attack, i.e. spear; also (figuratively) a shoot of growth; i.e. branch

Derivation

from H7971 (שָׁלַח);

Appears 8 times in Scripture

Job 33:18

to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.

Song of Solomon 4:13

Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the choicest of fruits, with henna and nard,

Nehemiah 4:23

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.

Joel 2:8

They do not jostle one another; each proceeds in his path. They burst through the defenses, never breaking ranks.

Nehemiah 4:17

who were rebuilding the wall. The laborers who carried materials worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other.

Job 36:12

But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

2 Chronicles 32:5

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.

2 Chronicles 23:10

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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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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