Shelah: meaning of the name

Shelah in Hebrew and Greek

Who named Shelah in the Bible

• Shelah, son of Judah

  8 verses · first mentioned in Genesis 38:5 · Tribe of Judah

Shelah in Scripture

“Shelah” appears in 10 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 38:5

  And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.

• Genesis 38:11

  Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.

• Genesis 38:14

  And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.

• Genesis 38:26

  And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

• Genesis 46:12

  And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.

• Numbers 26:20

  And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.

• 1 Chronicles 1:18

  And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.

• 1 Chronicles 1:24

  Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,