sheela · request

What it means

sheela (שְׁאֵלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “request”.

What one asks of another.

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. What one asks for.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• request ×10
• petition ×3
• what they asked ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×2
• Esther×6
• Job×1
• Psalms×1

• Judges 8:24

  Gideon said to them, “Let me ask of you a request: give me each man an earring from his spoil.” For they had earrings of gold, because they were Ishmaelites.

• 1 Samuel 1:17

  Then Eli answered and said, “Go in peace, and may the Elohim of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”

• 1 Samuel 1:27

  For this boy I prayed, and YHWH has given me my petition that I asked of him.

• 1 Samuel 2:20

  And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, “May YHWH give you offspring from this woman in place of the petition that was asked for YHWH.” Then they would go to his home.

• 1 Kings 2:16

  And now one request I am asking of you; do not refuse me.” And she said to him, “Speak.”

• 1 Kings 2:20

  And she said, “One small request I am asking of you; do not refuse me.” And the king said to her, “Ask, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”

• Esther 5:6

  And the king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, “What is your request? It will be given to you. And what is your petition? Up to half of the kingdom, and it will be done.”

• Esther 5:7

  And Esther answered and said, “My request and my petition:

• Esther 5:8

  if I have found favor in the eyes of the king, and if it seems good to the king to grant my request and to do my petition, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will make for them, and tomorrow I will do according to the word of the king.”

• Esther 7:2

  And the king said to Esther also on the second day, at the banquet of wine, “What is your request, Esther the queen? It will be given to you. And what is your petition? Up to half of the kingdom, and it will be done.”

• Esther 7:3

  And Esther the queen answered and said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it seems good to the king, let my life be given to me at my request, and my people at my petition.

• Esther 9:12

  And the king said to Esther the queen, “In Susa, the fortress, the Jews have killed and made perish five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman; in the rest of the king’s provinces what have they done? And what is your request? It will be given to you. And what is your petition further? It will be done.”

• Job 6:8

  Who would grant that my request might come, and that Eloah would grant my hope,

• Psalms 106:15

  And he gave them what they asked, but sent leanness into their soul.