To extract
שָׁלָהStrong’s H7953shalah (sha-lah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shalah is the Hebrew word usually translated “take away”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?”
Meaning
- (Qal) to draw out, extract
How it's translated
- he will take away 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁלָה shalah · to extract
(Qal) to draw out, extract
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “extract” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EX'TRACT, noun
That which is extracted or drawn from something.
- In literature, a passage taken from a book or writing.
- In pharmacy, any thing drawn from a substance, as essences, tinctures, etc.; or a solution of the purer parts of a mixed body inspissated by distillation or evaporation, nearly to the consistence of honey.
- In chimistry, a peculiar principle, supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; called also the extractive principle.
- Extraction; descent. [Not now used.]
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.