שַׁלְוָה
shalva · ease, security
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7962 · appears 8 times in the Bible
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shalva (שַׁלְוָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ease, security”.
Ease, quietness; the security of one who lives without cares (sometimes a false security).
How to say it
shal·va
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
- A life without alarms; sometimes careless self-assurance.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- ease ×5
- complacency ×1
- quiet ×1
- tranquility ×1
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 122:7
may there be peace within your wall, tranquility within your palaces.
- Proverbs 1:32
For the turning away of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of the senseless will destroy them.
- Proverbs 17:1
Better is a dry morsel and quiet with it than a house full of sacrifices of strife.
- Jeremiah 22:21
I spoke to you in your ease; you said, “I will not listen.” This has been your way from your youth, that you have not listened to my voice.
- Ezekiel 16:49
Look, this was the iniquity of Sodom your sister: pride, fullness of bread, and careless ease were hers and her daughters’, but the hand of the poor and the needy she did not strengthen.
- Daniel 8:25
And by his cunning he will make deceit prosper in his hand, and in his heart he will make himself great, and in their ease he will destroy many; and against the Prince of princes he will stand up; but without hand he will be broken.
- Daniel 11:21
And there will stand up in his place a despised one, on whom they have not conferred the splendor of the kingdom; but he will come in a time of ease and seize the kingdom by intrigues.
- Daniel 11:24
In a time of ease, and into the richest parts of the province, he will come, and he will do what his fathers did not do, nor the fathers of his fathers: plunder and spoil and goods he will scatter among them, and against fortified places he will devise his plans, but only until a time.