shalev · at ease, secure

What it means

shalev (שָׁלֵו) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “at ease, secure”.

At ease: living in peace and without alarm. In a bad sense, careless, overconfident.

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. Living undisturbed; sometimes too self-assured.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• ease ×3
• tranquil ×2
• carefree ×1
• peaceful ×1
• tranquility ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Zechariah×1

• 1 Chronicles 4:40

  And they found rich and good pasture, and the land was broad, quiet, and peaceful, for those who lived there before were from Ham.

• Job 16:12

  I was tranquil, and he shook me; he seized me by the neck and smashed me to pieces, and set me up for himself as a target.

• Job 20:20

  For he did not know tranquility in his belly; nothing of what he covets will he rescue.

• Job 21:23

  One dies in his very fullness, wholly at ease and tranquil;

• Psalms 73:12

  Look, these are the wicked, and, always at ease, they have increased their wealth.

• Jeremiah 49:31

  Rise up, go up against a nation at ease, that dwells in security, declares YHWH, that has no doors and no bar; they dwell alone.

• Ezekiel 23:42

  And the sound of a carefree crowd was in her, and with men from the multitude of humankind Sabeans were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands and a crown of beauty on their heads.

• Zechariah 7:7

  Are not these the words that YHWH proclaimed through the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and at ease, and its cities around it, and the Negev and the Shephelah were inhabited?”