To ask
שְׁאֵלStrong’s H7593sheel (she-el)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sheel is the Aramaic word usually translated “we asked”, “asking” and “ask for you”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.”
Meaning
- To ask(P'al)
How it's translated
- we asked 2
- asking 2
- he will ask for you 1
- he has asked 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 3
- Daniel 3
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:11In contextAnd it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
- Daniel 2:27In contextDaniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;
- Ezra 5:9Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
- Ezra 5:10We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
- Ezra 7:21And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,
Aramaic dictionary
שְׁאֵל sheel · to ask
1) to ask 1a) (P'al) 1a1) to ask for, request 1a2) to enquire for or about
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ask” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
'ASK, verb transitive
[Gr. In former times, the English word was pronounced ax, as in the royal style of assenting to bills in Parliament. 'Be it as it is axed.']
- To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; with of before the person to whom the request is made.
- To require, expect or claim.“To whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more” Luke 12:48
- To interrogate, or inquire; to put a question, with a view to an answer.“He is of age, ask him” John 9:21
- To require, or make claim.“Ask me never so much dowry” Genesis 34:12
All definitions and other forms of “ask”
- To claim, require or demand, as the price or value of a commodity; to set a price; as, what price do you ask?
- To require, as physically necessary.
- To invite; as, to ask guests to a wedding or entertainment; ask my friend to step into the house.
'ASK, verb intransitive
- To request or petition, followed by for; as, ask for bread; or without for.“Ask and it shall be given you” Matthew 7:7
- to inquire, or seek by request; sometimes followed by after.“Wherefore dost thou ask after my name?” Genesis 32:29
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.