shalaf · draw out

What it means

shalaf (שָׁלַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “draw out”.

Pull out: take the sword out of its sheath; also pull off or pull up.

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. To unsheathe the sword, or take something off.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• who drew ×11
• Draw ×4
• drawn ×4
• took off ×2
• He draws it out ×1
• drew it ×1
• it is pulled up ×1
• pull ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers×2
• Joshua×1
• Judges×10
• Ruth×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×4
• Job×1
• Psalms×1

• Numbers 22:23

  And the donkey saw the angel of YHWH standing in the road, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey to turn her back to the road.

• Numbers 22:31

  Then YHWH uncovered the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of YHWH standing in the road, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed and prostrated himself on his face.

• Joshua 5:13

  And it came about, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and look, a man was standing in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our adversaries?”

• Judges 3:22

  The hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the excrement came out.

• Judges 8:10

  Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their camps with them, about fifteen thousand, all who were left of all the camp of the sons of the east; and those who had fallen were a hundred and twenty thousand men who drew the sword.

• Judges 8:20

  He said to Jether his firstborn, “Rise, kill them.” But the young man did not draw his sword, for he was afraid, because he was still a young man.

• Judges 9:54

  He called at once to the young man who carried his weapons and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So his young man ran him through, and he died.

• Judges 20:2

  And the leading men of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, took their stand in the assembly of the people of Elohim, four hundred thousand foot soldiers who drew the sword.

• Judges 20:15

  And the sons of Benjamin were counted on that day from the cities: twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were counted: seven hundred chosen men.

• Judges 20:17

  And the men of Israel were counted, apart from Benjamin, four hundred thousand men who drew the sword; all these were men of war.

• Judges 20:25

  And Benjamin went out to meet them from Gibeah on the second day and brought down among the sons of Israel another eighteen thousand men to the ground; all these were men who drew the sword.

• Judges 20:35

  And YHWH struck down Benjamin before Israel, and the sons of Israel brought down in Benjamin on that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men; all these were men who drew the sword.

• Judges 20:46

  So all who fell of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword on that day; all these were men of valor.

• Ruth 4:7

  Now this was done formerly in Israel concerning redemption and concerning exchange, to confirm any matter: a man took off his sandal and gave it to his companion; and this was the manner of attesting in Israel.

• Ruth 4:8

  So the kinsman-redeemer said to Boaz, “Acquire it for yourself.” And he took off his sandal.

• 1 Samuel 17:51

  David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it from its sheath and put him to death and cut off with it his head. The Philistines saw that their mighty man was dead, and they fled.

• 1 Samuel 31:4

  Saul said to the one who carried his weapons, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and run me through and abuse me.” But the one who carried his weapons was not willing, for he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

• 2 Samuel 24:9

  Joab gave the number of the census of the people to the king: Israel was eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah five hundred thousand men.

• 2 Kings 3:26

  The king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him, and he took with him seven hundred men who drew the sword to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not.

• 1 Chronicles 10:4

  And Saul said to the one who carried his weapons, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.” But the one who carried his weapons was not willing, for he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

• 1 Chronicles 21:5

  Joab gave the number of the census of the people to David. All Israel was a million and a hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and Judah four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew the sword.

• 1 Chronicles 21:16

  David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of YHWH standing between the earth and the heavens, with his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. David and the elders, covered in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

• Job 20:25

  He draws it out, and it comes out from his back, and the lightning goes from his gall; upon him are terrors.

• Psalms 129:6

  May they be like grass on the rooftops, which before it is pulled up withers,

And 1 more times.