Be bereaved
שָׁכֹלStrong’s H7921shakhol (sha-khol)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shakhol is the Hebrew word usually translated “have been bereaved”, “bereaved” and “have miscarried”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“Until thy brother’s anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?”
Meaning
- To be bereaved, make childless, miscarry(Qal) to be bereaved · (Piel) · (Hiphil) miscarrying (participle)
- Barrenness
How it's translated
- i have been bereaved 2
- will i be bereaved 1
- they have miscarried 1
- you are making childless 1
- miscarrying 1
- and it will make childless 1
- it will make childless 1
- it has made childless 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 5
- Genesis 4
- 2 Kings 2
- Hosea 2
- Exodus 1
- Leviticus 1
12 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 31:38This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
- Genesis 42:36And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
- Genesis 43:14And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
- Exodus 23:26There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
- Leviticus 26:22I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
- Deuteronomy 32:25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁכֹל shakhol · be bereaved
1) to be bereaved, make childless, miscarry 1a) (Qal) to be bereaved 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to make childless 1b2) to cause barrenness, show barrenness or abortion 1b3) to miscarry 1c) (Hiphil) miscarrying (participle)
מְשַׁכֶּ֫לֶת meshakelet · barenness
barrenness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bereaved” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BERE'AVED, participle passive
Deprived; stripped and left destitute.
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.