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title: שׁוּלַמִּי — Shillemites · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שׁוּלַמִּי (7759), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Shillemites. BDB 1906: adj.gent. Shulammite. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שׁוּלַמִּי

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«שׁוּלַמִּי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Shillemites** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 7759 · **BDB:** שׁוּלַמִּית

### Glosses

Shulammite.\[woman\] (1); \[woman\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Shillemites [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7759/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. Shulammite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7759/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** usually expl. as adj.gent. f. Shulammite;—c. art. as n. הַשּׁ׳ heroine of Song of Songs Ct 7:1(×2); = Shunammite (from שׁוּנֵם, mod. Sûlem), B Σουμανεῖτις; but א A Σουλαμιτις; ? cp. Nab. n.pr.f. שלימת = سَلِيمَةُ, سُلَيْمَةُ Lzb376.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שׁוּלַמִּי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7759/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 7:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.1/)

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שׁ֤וּבִי שׁ֙וּבִי֙ הַשּׁ֣וּלַמִּ֔ית שׁ֥וּבִי שׁ֖וּבִי וְנֶחֱזֶה־בָּ֑ךְ מַֽה־תֶּחֱזוּ֙ בַּשּׁ֣וּלַמִּ֔ית כִּמְחֹלַ֖ת הַֽמַּחֲנָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* return return O Shulammite.\[woman\] return return so that.we.may.look on you why? will.you.look on the.Shulammite \[woman\] like the.dance of the.two.groups

*JPS 1917:* Return, return, O Shulammite; Return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulammite? As it were a dance of two companies.

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