shachol · be bereaved

What it means

shachol (שָׁכֹל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be bereaved”.

Lose one's children, be bereaved; also miscarry.

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 lose one's children, by death or by separation.
2. To make someone lose his children, in war or as punishment.
3. To lose the young before birth, or not to bear fruit.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• will bereave ×4
• I am bereaved ×2
• miscarriage ×2
• miscarry ×2
• I bereaved them ×1
• You have bereaved ×1
• be barren ×1
• bereaves ×1
• has made women childless ×1
• it left it childless ×1
• others ×8

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Kings×2
• Job×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×5
• Hosea×2
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 27:45

  until your brother’s anger turns away from you and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”

• Genesis 31:38

  These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock I have not eaten.

• Genesis 42:36

  Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and Benjamin you would take; all of it has come upon me!”

• Genesis 43:14

  May El Shaddai give you mercy before the man, so that he releases to you your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”

• Exodus 23:26

  None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; the number of your days I will fulfill.

• Leviticus 26:22

  And I will send among you the animals of the field, and they will bereave you and destroy your beasts and make you few, and your roads will become desolate.

• Deuteronomy 32:25

  Outside the sword will bereave, and in the inner rooms terror, both young man and virgin, the nursing child with the man of gray hair.

• 1 Samuel 15:33

  Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother shall be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked to pieces Agag before YHWH at Gilgal.

• 2 Kings 2:19

  The men of the city said to Elisha, “Look, please, the site of the city is good, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land causes miscarriage.”

• 2 Kings 2:21

  He went out to the spring of the water and threw salt into it and said, “Thus says YHWH, ‘I have healed this water; from there there will no longer be death or miscarriage.’”

• Job 21:10

  Their bull breeds and does not fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.

• Isaiah 49:21

  And you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved of children and barren, an exile and set aside; and these, who brought them up? Look, I was left by myself; these, where were they?’”

• Jeremiah 15:7

  And I winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I bereaved them, I destroyed my people; from their ways they did not turn back.

• Lamentations 1:20

  See, YHWH, that I am in distress; my insides are in turmoil; my heart is overturned within me, for I have rebelled and rebelled; outside the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death.

• Ezekiel 5:17

  And I will send against you famine and fierce animals, and they will bereave you; and pestilence and blood will pass through you, and the sword I will bring upon you. I, YHWH, have spoken.”

• Ezekiel 14:15

  If I made a ferocious animal pass through the land, and it left it childless, and it became a desolation without anyone passing through because of the animal,

• Ezekiel 36:12

  And I will make human beings, my people Israel, walk on you, and they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will not again leave them childless.

• Ezekiel 36:13

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: Because they say to you, “A devourer of human beings you are, and one who leaves childless your nation you have been,”

• Ezekiel 36:14

  therefore human beings you will not devour any longer, and your nation you will not leave childless any longer, declares Adonai YHWH.

• Hosea 9:12

  Even if they bring up their children, I will bereave them before they are men; for indeed, woe to them when I turn away from them!

• Hosea 9:14

  Give them, YHWH; what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

• Malachi 3:11

  And I will rebuke the devourer for you, and it will not destroy for you the fruit of the ground, and the vine in the field will not be barren for you, says YHWH Tsevaot.

And 2 more times.