Ease
שְׁלֵוָהStrong’s H7963shelevah (she-le-vah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shelevah is the Aramaic word usually translated “prosperity your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.”
Meaning
- Ease, prosperity
How it's translated
- of prosperity your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
שְׁלֵוָה shelevah · ease
ease, prosperity Aramaic of shal.vah (שַׁלְוָה "ease" H7962)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.