sheel · ask

What it means

sheel (שְׁאֵל) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “ask”.

To ask, to request (Aramaic). The same word as the Hebrew "shaal".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To put a question or request to someone with authority or knowledge.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• asks ×3
• we asked ×2
• has asked ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Ezra×3
• Daniel×3

• Ezra 5:9

  Then we asked those elders and thus we said to them: ‘Who gave you an order to build this house and to finish this structure?’

• Ezra 5:10

  And we asked them also their names, to inform you, so that we might write the name of the men who are at their head.

• Ezra 7:21

  And by me, I, Artaxerxes the king, an order is given to all the treasurers who are in the other side of the river, that all that Ezra the priest, scribe of the law of the Elah of the heavens, asks of you be done with diligence,

• Daniel 2:10

  The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, “There is no man on the dry land who can declare the king’s matter, because no king, great and ruling, has asked a thing like this of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean.

• Daniel 2:11

  And the thing that the king asks is difficult, and there is no other who can declare it before the king except gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”

• Daniel 2:27

  Daniel answered before the king and said, “The mystery that the king asks, no wise men, enchanters, magicians, or diviners are able to declare to the king.