shelach · spear, missile, shoot

What it means

shelach (שֶׁלַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “spear, missile, shoot”.

A weapon that is thrown or held: a spear, a javelin. The same word can also name a shoot or sprout of a plant.

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. Something thrown or held to fight with: a spear.
2. The new growth a plant puts out.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• weapon ×3
• dart ×2
• weapons ×2
• shoots ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×2
• Job×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Joel×1

• 2 Chronicles 23:10

  He stationed all the people, each man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, by the altar and by the house, around the king.

• 2 Chronicles 32:5

  He strengthened himself and built all the wall that was broken down, and raised on it the towers, and outside another wall; and he repaired the Millo in the city of David, and made weapons in abundance and shields.

• Nehemiah 4:17

  Those who built on the wall and those who carried the burden were loading it: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held the weapon.

• Nehemiah 4:23

  So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my young men, nor the men of the guard who were behind me— none of us took off our clothes; each had his weapon, even at the water.

• Job 33:18

  he holds back his soul from the pit, and his life from passing by the dart.

• Job 36:12

  But if they do not hear, by the dart they will pass, and they will expire without knowledge.

• Song of Songs 4:13

  Your shoots are a park of pomegranates with choice fruits, henna with nard,

• Joel 2:8

  And one does not push his brother; each man marches on his highway; and through the weapons they fall, but they do not break off.