To snow
שָׁלַגStrong’s H7949shalag (sha-lag)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shalag is the Hebrew word usually translated “let it snow”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.”
Meaning
- (Hiphil) to snow, be as snow
How it's translated
- let it snow 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
שָׁלַג shalag · to snow
(Hiphil) to snow, be as snow
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “snow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SNOW, noun
[Latin nix, nivis; The Latin nivis, is contracted from nigis, like Eng. bow.]
- Frozen vapor; watery particles congealed into white crystals in the air, and falling to the earth.
- A vessel equipped with two masts, resembling the main and fore-masts of a ship, and a third small mast just abaft the mainmast, carrying a try-sail.
All definitions and other forms of “snow”
SNOW, verb intransitive
To fall in snow; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.
SNOW, verb transitive
To scatter like snow
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.