H7974: שֶׁלַח
Shelach · pronounced sheh'-lakh · “Shelah”
Definition
Shelach, a postdiluvian patriarch
KJV translates it as: Salah, Shelah. Compare H7975 (שִׁלֹחַ)lemma שִׁלֹּחַ extra dagesh, corrected to שִׁלֹחַ.
Word origin: the same as H7973 (שֶׁלַח);
Extended definition
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.24;
son of: Cainan (G2536);
father of: Eber (H5677)
Also named: Sala (Σαλά "Shelah" G4527H)
§ Salah or Shelah = "sprout"
son of Arphaxad and father of Eber
son of: Cainan (G2536);
father of: Eber (H5677)
Also named: Sala (Σαλά "Shelah" G4527H)
§ Salah or Shelah = "sprout"
son of Arphaxad and father of Eber
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7974 is translated
- shelah ×9
Bible verses with H7974 (Shelach)
Shelach appears in 7 verses.
- Genesis 10:24
And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
- Genesis 11:12
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
- Genesis 11:13
And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:14
And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
- Genesis 11:15
And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
- 1 Chronicles 1:18
And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
- 1 Chronicles 1:24
Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,