H7999: שָׁלַם
shâlam · pronounced shaw-lam' · “to complete”
Definition
to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications)
KJV translates it as: make amends, (make an) end, finish, full, give again, make good, (re-) pay (again), (make) (to) (be at) peace(-able), that is perfect, perform, (make) prosper(-ous), recompense, render, requite, make restitution, restore, reward, [idiom] surely.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be complete, be finished, be ended
1a2) to be sound, be uninjured
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to complete, finish
1b2) to make safe
1b3) to make whole or good, restore, make compensation
1b4) to make good, pay
1b5) to requite, recompense, reward
1c) (Pual)
1c1) to be performed
1c2) to be repaid, be requited
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to complete, perform
1d2) to make an end of
Aramaic equivalent: she.lam (שְׁלֵם "be complete" H8000)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7999 is translated
- he will repay ×11
- he will make restitution ×9
- i will repay ×8
- he will make compensation ×5
- it ×5
- pay ×5
- i will pay ×5
- me ×4
- it was complete ×3
- certainly make compensation ×2
- certainly make restitution ×2
- he repays ×2
Bible verses with H7999 (shâlam)
Shâlam appears in 107 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 44:4
And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
- Exodus 21:34
The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
- Exodus 21:36
Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
- Exodus 22:1
If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
- Exodus 22:3
If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
- Exodus 22:4
If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
- Exodus 22:5
If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
- Exodus 22:6
If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
- Exodus 22:7
If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.
- Exodus 22:9
For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
- Exodus 22:11
Then shall an oath of the Lord be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
- Exodus 22:12
And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.
- Exodus 22:13
If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.
- Exodus 22:14
And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.
- Exodus 22:15
But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
- Leviticus 5:16
And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
- Leviticus 6:5
Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
- Leviticus 24:18
And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
- Leviticus 24:21
And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 7:10
And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
- Deuteronomy 20:12
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
- Deuteronomy 23:21
When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
- Deuteronomy 32:41
If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
- Joshua 10:1
Now it came to pass, when Adoni–zedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
- Joshua 10:4
Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
All 107 references
- Joshua 11:19
- Judges 1:7
- Ruth 2:12
- 1 Samuel 24:19
- 2 Samuel 3:39
- 2 Samuel 10:19
- 2 Samuel 12:6
- 2 Samuel 15:7
- 2 Samuel 20:19
- 1 Kings 7:51
- 1 Kings 9:25
- 1 Kings 22:44
- 2 Kings 4:7
- 2 Kings 9:26
- 1 Chronicles 19:19
- 2 Chronicles 5:1
- Nehemiah 6:15
- Job 5:23
- Job 8:6
- Job 9:4
- Job 21:19
- Job 21:31
- Job 22:21
- Job 22:27
- Job 23:14
- Job 34:11
- Job 34:33
- Job 41:11
- Psalms 7:4
- Psalms 22:25
- Psalms 31:23
- Psalms 35:12
- Psalms 37:21
- Psalms 38:20
- Psalms 41:10
- Psalms 50:14
- Psalms 56:12
- Psalms 61:8
- Psalms 62:12
- Psalms 65:1
- Psalms 66:13
- Psalms 76:11
- Psalms 116:14
- Psalms 116:18
- Psalms 137:8
- Proverbs 6:31
- Proverbs 7:14
- Proverbs 11:31
- Proverbs 13:13
- Proverbs 13:21
- Proverbs 16:7
- Proverbs 19:17
- Proverbs 20:22
- Proverbs 22:27
- Proverbs 25:22
- Ecclesiastes 5:4
- Ecclesiastes 5:5
- Isaiah 19:21
- Isaiah 38:12
- Isaiah 38:13
- Isaiah 42:19
- Isaiah 44:26
- Isaiah 44:28
- Isaiah 57:18
- Isaiah 59:18
- Isaiah 60:20
- Isaiah 65:6
- Isaiah 66:6
- Jeremiah 16:18
- Jeremiah 18:20
- Jeremiah 25:14
- Jeremiah 32:18
- Jeremiah 50:29
- Jeremiah 51:6
- Jeremiah 51:24
- Jeremiah 51:56
- Ezekiel 33:15
- Hosea 14:2
- Joel 2:25
- Joel 3:4
- Jonah 2:9
- Nahum 1:15
Words derived from H7999
יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם H3389
Yᵉrûwshâlaim — Jerusalem
מְשֻׁלָּם H4918
Mᵉshullâm — Meshullam
מְשִׁלֵּמוֹת H4919
Mᵉshillêmôwth — Meshillemoth
מְשֶׁלֶמְיָה H4920
Mᵉshelemyâh — Meshelemiah
מְשִׁלֵּמִית H4921
Mᵉshillêmîyth — Meshillemith
שׁוּלַמִּית H7759
Shûwlammîyth — Shulammites
שָׁלוֹם H7965
shâlôwm — peace
שִׁלּוּם H7966
shillûwm — recompense
שְׁלַם H8000
shᵉlam — be complete
שֶׁלֶם H8002
shelem — peace offering
שָׁלֵם H8003
shâlêm — complete
שִׁלֵּם H8005
shillêm — recompense
שַׁלְמֹן H8021
shalmôn — reward