שִׁלֹחַ
shiloach · Shelah, Shiloah
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7975 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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shiloach (שִׁלֹחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Shelah, Shiloah”.
Shelah (Shiloah): the name of a pool and channel of Jerusalem, beside the king's garden; Strong identifies it with Siloam (Isaiah 8:6), whose Hebrew name is almost the same.
How to say it
shi·lo·ach
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.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Shelah ×1
- Shiloah ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Nehemiah 3:15
And the Fountain Gate Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired; he built it and roofed it and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.
- Isaiah 8:6
“Because this people has rejected the waters of Shiloah that go gently, and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,