Neglect
שָׁלוּStrong’s H7960shalu (sha-lu)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shalu is the Aramaic word usually translated “negligence”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.”
Meaning
- Neglect, remissness
How it's translated
- negligence 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 2
- Daniel 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 6:4In contextThen the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.
- Ezra 4:22Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
- Ezra 6:9And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:
Aramaic dictionary
שָׁלוּ shalu · neglect
neglect, remissness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “neglect” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NEGLECT, verb transitive
[G. To let, to leave, to suffer to pass. The sense of the latter words then is to leave behind, or permit to remain; I suspect the Latin To be composed of the same prefix, as n is not radical in the latter. But of this I am not confident.]
- To omit by carelessness or design; to forbear to do, use, employ, promote or attend to; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay honest debts; to neglect our interest or policy; to neglect the means in our power.
- To omit to receive or embrace; to slight.“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?” Hebrews 2:3
- To slight; not to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect.
- To postpone. [Not in use.]
All definitions and other forms of “neglect”
NEGLECT, noun
- Omission; forbearance to do any thing that can be done or that requires to be done. neglect may be from carelessness or intention.
- Slight; omission of attention or civilities. neglect of due notice and attention to strangers is characteristic of ill breeding.
- Negligence; habitual want of regard.
- State of being disregarded.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.