shilo · Shiloh

What it means

shilo (שִׁילֹה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Shiloh”.

A city in the hill country of Ephraim where the tent of meeting stood from Joshua until Samuel.

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.

The place

• Shiloh

  Today: Khirbet Seilun (Tel Shiloh), West Bank

  A town in the hills of Ephraim, about 19 miles (30 km) north of Jerusalem.

  The tabernacle stood there in the days of Joshua and Eli (Josh 18:1; 1 Sam 1:3). Hannah prayed there, and Samuel was born (1 Sam 1:9-20).

  Joshua 18:11 Samuel 1:31 Samuel 4:3Jeremiah 7:12

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Joshua×8
• Judges×5
• 1 Samuel×10
• 1 Kings×3
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×5

• Joshua 18:1

  And the whole community of the sons of Israel assembled at Shiloh, and they settled the tent of meeting there; and the land was subdued before them.

• Joshua 18:8

  So the men rose and went, and Joshua commanded those who were going to write the land, saying, “Go, and walk about through the land, and write it, and return to me; and here I will cast for you a lot before YHWH in Shiloh.”

• Joshua 18:9

  And the men went and passed through the land and wrote it by cities in seven portions in a book; and they came to Joshua, to the camp, at Shiloh.

• Joshua 18:10

  And Joshua cast for them a lot in Shiloh before YHWH; and there Joshua divided the land to the sons of Israel according to their divisions.

• Joshua 19:51

  These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the sons of Israel gave as inheritances by lot in Shiloh before YHWH, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And they finished dividing the land.

• Joshua 21:2

  and they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “YHWH commanded through Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasturelands for our livestock.”

• Joshua 22:9

  So the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh returned and went away from the sons of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they had taken possession of according to the command of YHWH through Moses.

• Joshua 22:12

  And the sons of Israel heard it, and the whole community of the sons of Israel assembled at Shiloh to go up against them with the army.

• Judges 18:31

  So they set up for themselves Micah’s carved image that he had made, all the days that the house of Elohim was in Shiloh.

• Judges 21:12

  And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who had not known a man by lying with a male; and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

• Judges 21:19

  And they said, “Look, there is the feast of YHWH in Shiloh from year to year, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”

• Judges 21:21

  and watch; and look, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out from the vineyards and snatch for yourselves, each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

• 1 Samuel 1:3

  That man used to go up from his city year after year to bow down and to sacrifice to YHWH Tsevaot in Shiloh; and there were the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests of YHWH.

• 1 Samuel 1:9

  And Hannah rose after eating in Shiloh and after drinking. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the temple of YHWH.

• 1 Samuel 1:24

  And she brought him up with her when she had weaned him, with three bulls, one ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to the house of YHWH at Shiloh. And the boy was young.

• 1 Samuel 2:14

  and he would thrust it into the pan or the kettle or the cauldron or the pot; all that the fork brought up the priest took with it. So they did to all Israel who came there to Shiloh.

• 1 Samuel 3:21

  And YHWH appeared again at Shiloh, for YHWH revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of YHWH.

• 1 Samuel 4:3

  And the people came to the camp, and the elders of Israel said, “Why has YHWH struck us down today before the Philistines? Let us take to ourselves from Shiloh the ark of the covenant of YHWH, so that it may come among us and save us from the hand of our enemies.”

• 1 Samuel 4:4

  So the people sent to Shiloh, and they carried from there the ark of the covenant of YHWH Tsevaot, who sits on the cherubim; and there were the two sons of Eli with the ark of the covenant of Elohim, Hophni and Phinehas.

• 1 Samuel 4:12

  And a man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh that day, with his clothes torn and earth on his head.

• 1 Samuel 14:3

  And Ahijah son of Ahitub, brother of Ichabod, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, priest of YHWH at Shiloh, was carrying the ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.

• 1 Kings 2:27

  So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to YHWH, to fulfill the word of YHWH that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

• 1 Kings 14:2

  Jeroboam said to his wife, “Get up, please, and disguise yourself, so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Look, there is Ahijah the prophet; he spoke about me that I would be king over this people.

• 1 Kings 14:4

  Jeroboam’s wife did so: she got up and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes had become fixed because of his old age.

• Psalms 78:60

  And he abandoned the dwelling of Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among human beings.

• Jeremiah 7:12

  For go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at the first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel.

• Jeremiah 7:14

  I will do to the house over which my name is called, in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

• Jeremiah 26:6

  then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse for all the nations of the earth.’”

• Jeremiah 26:9

  Why have you prophesied in the name of YHWH, saying, ‘Like Shiloh this house will be, and this city will be laid waste, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of YHWH.

• Jeremiah 41:5

  that men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men, with their beards shaved and their garments torn and cutting themselves, with a grain offering and frankincense in their hand to bring to the house of YHWH.

And 2 more times.