שֹׁעַל
shoal · handful, palm
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8168 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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shoal (שֹׁעַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “handful, palm”.
The hollow of the hand and what fits in it: a handful.
How to say it
sho·al
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
- What fits in a cupped palm.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- handfuls ×2
- hollow of his hand ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Kings 20:10
Ben-hadad sent to him and said, “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add, if the dust of Samaria is enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”
- Isaiah 40:12
Who has measured in the hollow of his hand the waters, and the heavens with the span gauged, and held in a measure the dust of the earth, and weighed with the scale the mountains and the hills with a balance?
- Ezekiel 13:19
And you have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to put to death souls that should not die, and to keep alive souls that should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.