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title: שֶׁלַח — Salah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֶׁלַח (7974), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: Salah. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֶׁלַח

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«שֶׁלַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Salah** — 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 7974 · **BDB:** שֶׁ֫לַח²

### Glosses

Shelah (9)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Salah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7974/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7974/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Arphachshad, Σαλα: שׁ׳ Gn 10:24b; 11:13, 14, 15; 1 Ch 1:18b; שָׁ֑לַח Gn 10:24a; 11:12; 1 Ch 1:18a, 24.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֶׁלַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7974/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 1:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.24/)

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שֵׁ֥ם ׀ אַרְפַּכְשַׁ֖ד שָֽׁלַח׃

*Word for word:* Shem Arphaxad Shelah

*JPS 1917:* Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah;

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[Genesis 11:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.14/)

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וְשֶׁ֥לַח חַ֖י שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת־עֵֽבֶר׃

*Word for word:* and Shelah he.lived thirty year\[s\] and he.fathered (et) Eber

*JPS 1917:* And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.

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