`tribute`
שִׁילֹהStrong’s H7886shiloh (shi-loh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shiloh is the Hebrew word usually translated “shiloh”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, only mentioned at Gen.49.10; also translated "tribute"
How it's translated
- shiloh 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁילֹה shiloh · `tribute`
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, only mentioned at Gen.49.10; also translated "tribute" meaning uncertain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tribute” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TRIB'UTE, noun
[Latin tributum, from tribuo, to give, bestow or divide.]
- An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one prince or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty.
- A personal contribution; as a tribute of respect.
- Something given or contributed.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.