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title: שֶׁלֶג — snow · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֶׁלֶג (7950), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 20 times: snow. BDB 1906: n.m. snow. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֶׁלֶג

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«שֶׁלֶג» in the Tanakh dictionary: **snow** — 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:** 20 times · **Key:** 7950 · **BDB:** שֶׁ֫לֶג

### Glosses

snow (11); of.snow (4); the.snow (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

snow [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7950/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. snow [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7950/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.Is 55:10 snow;—abs. שׁ׳ Is 1:18 +, שָׁ֑לֶג Ex 4:6 +; cstr. שֶׁ֫לֶג Je 18:14;—snow, 2 S 23:20 (יוֹם הַשּׁ׳) = 1 Ch 11:22, Jb 6:16; 37:6 (‖ גֶּשֶׁם מָטָר), ψ 147:16; 148:8 (+ אֵשׁ, בָּרָד, קִיטוֹר); מֵימֵי שׁ׳ Jb 24:19, cf. 9:30 Qr (בְּמֵי, בְּמוֹ De Di Bu al., snow as purifying; v. also \[מַי\]); poet. אֹצְרוֹת שׁ׳ 38:22 (‖ א׳ בָּרָד; symb. of cold Pr 31:21; as moistening, fertilizing Is 55:10 (‖ גֶּשֶׁם); on mountains, fig. of normal habit, שׁ׳ לְבָנוֹן Je 18:14; sim. of whiteness, of leprosy Ex 4:6 (J), Nu 12:10 (E), 2 K 5:27; c. מִן comp., of fair skin La 4:7 (‖ חָלָב); sim. of sins, כַּשּׁ׳ יַלְבִּינוּ Is 1:18, cf. ψ 51:9 (מִן comp.); sim. of refreshment Pr 25:13 (drink cooled by snow, v. reff. in De Toy), of the unfitting כַּשּׁ׳ בַּקַיִץ 26:1 (‖ מָטָר).—On snow in Pal. v. NicolHast. DB snow.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֶׁלֶג» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7950/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 6:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.16/)

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הַקֹּדְרִ֥ים מִנִּי־קָ֑רַח עָ֝לֵ֗ימוֹ יִתְעַלֶּם־שָֽׁלֶג׃

*Word for word:* (the).\[which are\].dark from ice over them it.hides.itself snow

*JPS 1917:* Which are black by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow hideth itself;

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[Job 24:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.19/)

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צִיָּ֤ה גַם־חֹ֗ם יִגְזְל֥וּ מֵֽימֵי־שֶׁ֗לֶג שְׁא֣וֹל חָטָֽאוּ׃

*Word for word:* drought also heat they.snatch.away \[the\].waters of.snow Sheol \[those.who\].they.have.sinned

*JPS 1917:* Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth the nether-world those that have sinned.

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