shalah (to prosper)

Meaning

To be at rest, prosper, be quiet, be at ease(Qal)

How it's translated

i am at ease 1
they are at peace 1
may they be at ease 1
are they at ease 1
they are at ease 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Job 2
Psalms 1
Jeremiah 1
Lamentations 1

4 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Job 12:6The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Psalms 122:6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Jeremiah 12:1Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Lamentations 1:5Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

Hebrew dictionary

שָׁלָה shalah · to prosper

1) to be at rest, prosper, be quiet, be at ease 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be or have quiet 1a2) to be at ease, prosper Aramaic equivalent: she.lah (שְׁלֵה "safe" H7954)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “prosper” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

PROS'PER, verb transitive

[Latin prospero, from prosperus, from the Gr. to carry to or toward; to bear.]

To favor; to render successful.

All definitions and other forms of “prosper”

PROS'PER, verb intransitive

To be successful; to succeed.

“The Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand” Genesis 39:3“He that covereth his sins, shall not prosper” Proverbs 28:13
To grow or increase; to thrive; to make gain; as, to prosper in business.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.