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title: שִׁלֹה — Shiloh · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שִׁלֹה (7887), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 32 times: Shiloh. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שִׁלֹה

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«שִׁלֹה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Shiloh** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 32 times · **Key:** 7887 · **BDB:** שִׁלוֹ

### Glosses

Shiloh (29); of.Shiloh (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Shiloh [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7887/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7887/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (orig. שִׁלוֹן, v. adj.gent. (otherwise BaNB § 224 b), which also shews that √ שׁול, שׁיל, was posited when text of K was fixed, cf. Dr 2 S 15:12);—שִׁלוֹ Ju 21:19; 1 S 1:24; 3:21; 14:3; Je 7:14 (on destruction of S. v. We 2 S 8:17), 26:9; 41:5, מִשְׁכַּן שׁ׳ ψ 78:60; שִׁילוֹ Ju 21:21(×2); Je 7:12; שִׁלֹה Jos 18:1, 8, 9, 10; 19:51; 21:2; 22:9, 12 (all P or R), Ju 18:31; 21:12; 1 S 1:3, 9; 2:14; 3:21; 4:3, 4, 12; 1 K 2:27; 14:2, 4; Je 26:6 (var. שִׁלוֹ in all these \[21 times\] given by Gi as Qr).—Σηλωμ, Σηλω(ν).—Mod. Seilûn, c. 9½ m. NNE. of Bethel, BuhlG. 178 DrHast.DB shiloh. Also תַּאֲנַתשִׁלֹה; s. p. 1061.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 30 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שִׁלֹה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7887/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 78:60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.60/)

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וַ֭יִּטֹּשׁ מִשְׁכַּ֣ן שִׁל֑וֹ אֹ֝֗הֶל שִׁכֵּ֥ן בָּאָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.abandoned the.tabernacle of.Shiloh \[the\].tent \[which\].he.had.pitched among (the) humankind

*JPS 1917:* And He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which He had made to dwell among men;

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[Judges 18:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.18.31/)

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וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ לָהֶ֔ם אֶת־פֶּ֥סֶל מִיכָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֑ה כָּל־יְמֵ֛י הֱי֥וֹת בֵּית־הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּשִׁלֹֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and they.set.up for themselves (et) the.carved.image of.Micah which he.had.made all the.days of.the.being of.the.house of.(the) God at Shiloh

*JPS 1917:* So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

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