Snow
שֶׁ֫לֶגStrong’s H7950sheleg (she-leg)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sheleg is the Hebrew word usually translated “snow”, “like snow” and “more than snow”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.”
Meaning
- Snow
How it's translated
- snow 7
- like snow 5
- the snow 2
- to the snow 1
- and more than snow 1
- from snow 1
- and the snow 1
- snow of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 5
- Psalms 3
- Proverbs 3
- Isaiah 2
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
11 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 12:10And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
- 2 Samuel 23:20And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
- 2 Kings 5:27The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
- 1 Chronicles 11:22Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
- Job 6:16Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
- Job 9:30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁ֫לֶג sheleg · snow
snow Aramaic equivalent: te.lag (תְּלַג "snow" H8517)
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.