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title: שָׁלַף — draw out · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁלַף (8025), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 25 times: draw out. BDB 1906: vb. draw out, off. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁלַף

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«שָׁלַף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **draw out** — 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:** 25 times · **Key:** 8025 · **BDB:** שָׁלַף

### Glosses

\[who\].drew (9); \[was\].drawn (4); draw (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

draw out [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8025/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. draw out, off [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8025/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. draw out, off (NH id., loosen, draw (nail, sword; Jastr); Assyrian šalâpu, pluck out, draw sword; Aramaic שְׁלַף draw sword, draw off shoe, ܫܠܰܦ draw sword, in Lexx. remove corselet; Arabic سَلَفَ is pass, pass away, سَلَبَ strip, plunder, etc.);— Pf. 3 ms. שׁ׳ Ju 3:22 +; Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּשְׁלֹף Ru 4:8, etc.; Imv. ms. שְׁלֹף Ju 9:54 +; Pt. act. שֹׁלֵף 8:10 +, etc.; pass. f. שְׁלוּפָה Nu 22:23 +;— draw out sword from (מִן) wound Ju 3:22, cf. Jb 20:25; usually sword from sheath Ju 8:20; 9:54; 1 S 31:4 = 1 Ch 10:4, + מִתַּעְרָהּ 1 S 17:51; וְחַרְבּוֹ שְׁלוּפָה בְּיָדוֹ Nu 22:23, 31; Jos 5:13 (all J), 1 Ch 21:16; elsewhere אִישׁ שֹׁלֵף ח׳ coll. Ju 8:10; 20:2, 15, 17, 46; 2 S 24:9 2 K 3:26 1 Ch 21:5(×2), cf. Ju 20:35 and (שֹׁלְפֵי ח׳) v 25. draw off sandal Ru 4:7, 8 (cf. I. חלץ 1; also RSK 269 Dr Dt 25:9 BewerSK lxxvi (1903), 332). shoot up (?), i.e. draw out blade, of grass on roof ψ 129:6 (cf. Ew Bae al.); Che Dr is unsheathed (vb. c. subj. indef. = pass.), with same meaning; Hup-Now proposes שָׁלֵם (with ‖ in Syriac); v. OrtenbergTextkritik d. Ps. (1861), 30 שֶׁחָלָף, WeHpt Du חֲלֹף (as 90:5, 6, v. ח׳ 2).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 24 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁלַף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8025/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 129:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.129.6/)

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יִ֭הְיוּ כַּחֲצִ֣יר גַּגּ֑וֹת שֶׁקַּדְמַ֖ת שָׁלַ֣ף יָבֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* may.they.be like.\[the\] grass of.roofs which before it.has.shot.up it.has.withered

*JPS 1917:* Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it springeth up;

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[Ruth 4:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.4.8/)

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וַיֹּ֧אמֶר הַגֹּאֵ֛ל לְבֹ֖עַז קְנֵה־לָ֑ךְ וַיִּשְׁלֹ֖ף נַעֲלֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the kinsman-redeemer to Boaz acquire.\[it\] for yourself and he.drew.off sandal his

*JPS 1917:* So the near kinsman said unto Boaz: 'Buy it for thyself.' And he drew off his shoe.

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