Bereavement
שְׁכוֹלStrong’s H7908shekhol (she-khol)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shekhol is the Hebrew word usually translated “childlessness” and “bereavement”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.”
Meaning
- Bereavement, loss of children
How it's translated
- childlessness 2
- bereavement 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 47:8Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
- Isaiah 47:9But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁכוֹל shekhol · bereavement
bereavement, loss of children
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bereavement” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BERE'AVEMENT, noun
Deprivation, particularly by the loss of a friend by death.
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.