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title: שִׁלֹחַ — Shiloah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שִׁלֹחַ (lemma:שִׁלֹחַ), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Shiloah. BDB 1906: n.pr.font. Pi.). With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שִׁלֹחַ

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«שִׁלֹחַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Shiloah** — 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:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:שִׁלֹחַ · **BDB:** שִׁלֹחַ

### Glosses

Shiloah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Shiloah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5dc_5b9_5d7_5b7/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.font. Pi.) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5dc_5b9_5d7_5b7/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.font. at SE. of Jerus. (connex. with above √ not certain (BaNB 66), ψ 104:10 has Pi.);—מֵי הַשּׁ׳ Is 8:6; Σ(ε)ιλωαμ; = iii. שֶׁלַח; mod. Birket Silwân; v. WilsonHast. DB siloam Cond GASm RSEncy. Bib. jerusalem, §§ 3, 11, 18 BuhlG 139; on inscription found in adjacent tunnel v. DrSm xv ff. GACooke 15 ff..

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שִׁלֹחַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5dc_5b9_5d7_5b7/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 8:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.6/)

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יַ֗עַן כִּ֤י מָאַס֙ הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה אֵ֚ת מֵ֣י הַשִּׁלֹ֔חַ הַהֹלְכִ֖ים לְאַ֑ט וּמְשׂ֥וֹשׂ אֶת־רְצִ֖ין וּבֶן־רְמַלְיָֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* because (dm) it.has.rejected the people (the) this (et) the.waters of.(the) Shiloah \[which\] go to gentleness and rejoicing with Rezin and the.son of.Remaliah

*JPS 1917:* Forasmuch as this people hath refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoiceth with Rezin and Remaliah's son;

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