sheleg · snow

What it means

sheleg (שֶׁלֶג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “snow”.

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. Frozen water that falls in white flakes or covers the high mountains.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×5
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1

• Exodus 4:6

  YHWH also said to him, “Please put your hand into your bosom.” So he put his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, look, his hand was leprous, like snow.

• Numbers 12:10

  And the cloud withdrew from over the tent, and look, Miriam was leprous, like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and look, she was leprous.

• 2 Samuel 23:20

  Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the son of a valiant man, great in deeds, from Kabzeel; he struck the two Ariel of Moab; and he went down and struck the lion in the middle of the well on the day of the snow.

• 2 Kings 5:27

  So the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever.” And he went out from his presence leprous, white as snow.

• 1 Chronicles 11:22

  Benaiah son of Jehoiada, son of a valiant man, great in deeds, from Kabzeel: he struck the two Ariel of Moab; and he went down and struck the lion in the middle of the well on the day of the snow.

• Job 6:16

  which are dark because of the ice; in them the snow hides itself.

• Job 9:30

  If I washed myself with water of snow and purified my palms with lye,

• Job 24:19

  Drought and heat seize the waters of snow; Sheol, those who have sinned.

• Job 37:6

  For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the downpour of rain, and to the downpour of his mighty rains.

• Job 38:22

  Have you entered into the treasuries of the snow, or the treasuries of the hail have you seen,

• Psalms 51:7

  Cleanse me from sin with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

• Psalms 147:16

  He gives snow like wool; frost like ashes he scatters.

• Psalms 148:8

  fire and hail, snow and smoke, stormy wind doing his word,

• Proverbs 25:13

  Like the coolness of snow in a day of harvest is a faithful envoy to those who send him; and he brings back the soul of his masters.

• Proverbs 26:1

  Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a senseless man.

• Proverbs 31:21

  She does not fear for her household because of the snow, for all her household is clothed in scarlet.

• Isaiah 1:18

  Come now, and let us argue it out, says YHWH. If your sins are like scarlet, they will be white as snow; if they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.

• Isaiah 55:10

  For as the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return there, but water the earth and make it give birth and sprout, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

• Jeremiah 18:14

  Does the snow of Lebanon leave the rock of the field? Or are the foreign, cold, flowing waters uprooted?

• Lamentations 4:7

  Purer than snow were her Nazirites, whiter than milk; ruddier in body than pearls, like sapphire their form.