שֵׁלָה
shela · Shelah
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7956 · appears 8 times in the Bible
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shela (שֵׁלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Shelah”.
The third son of Judah.
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she·la
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.
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Where it appears
- Genesis 38:5
Yet again she bore a son and called his name Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.
- Genesis 38:11
Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up”; for he said to himself, “Lest he too die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and remained in her father’s house.
- Genesis 38:14
She removed her widow’s garments from her, covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself, and sat at the entrance of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.
- Genesis 38:26
Judah recognized them and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah my son.” And he did not again know her.
- Genesis 46:12
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
- Numbers 26:20
And the sons of Judah by their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
- 1 Chronicles 2:3
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; these three were born to him by the daughter of Shua the Canaanite. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the eyes of YHWH, and he put him to death.
- 1 Chronicles 4:21
The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of the work of fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;