Ease
שַׁלְוָהStrong’s H7962shalvah (shal-vah)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shalvah is the Hebrew word usually translated “ease of”, “quietness” and “ease”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.”
Meaning
- Quietness, ease, prosperity
How it's translated
- and ease of 2
- in quietness 2
- ease 1
- and quietness 1
- in prosperity your 1
- and in prosperity 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
- Proverbs 2
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:21In contextAnd in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
- Daniel 11:24In contextHe shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
- Psalms 122:7Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
- Proverbs 1:32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
- Proverbs 17:1Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
- Jeremiah 22:21I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁלְוָה shalvah · ease
quietness, ease, prosperity Aramaic equivalent: she.le.vah (שְׁלֵוָה "ease" H7963)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ease” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EASE, noun
s as z. [Latin otium.]
- Rest; an undisturbed state.
- Applied to the mind, a quiet state; tranquillity; freedom from pain, concern, anxiety, solicitude, or any thing that frets or ruffles the mind.“His soul shall dwell at ease” Psalms 25:13“Wo to them that are at ease in Zion” Amos 6:1
- Rest from labor.
- Facility; freedom from difficulty or great labor.
All definitions
- Freedom from stiffness, harshness, forced expressions, or unnatural arrangement; as the ease of style.
- Freedom from constraint or formality; unaffectedness; as ease of behavior.
- To free from anxiety, care or disturbance, as the mind; as, the late news has eased my mind.
- To remove a burden from, either of body or mind; to relieve; with of. ease me of this load; ease them of their burdens.
- To mitigate; to alleviate; to assuage; to abate or remove in part any burden, pain, grief, anxiety or disturbance.“EASE thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father” 2 Chronicles 10:4
- To quiet; to allay; to destroy; as, to ease pain.
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.