Missile
שֶׁ֫לַחStrong’s H7973shelach (she-lach)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shelach is the Hebrew word usually translated “weapon his”, “weapon” and “missile”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.”
Meaning
- Weapon, missile, sproutmissile, weapon · sprout, shoot
How it's translated
- weapon his 2
- the weapon 2
- weapon 1
- by missile 1
- by a missile 1
- shoots your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Nehemiah 2
- Job 2
- Song of Solomon 1
- Joel 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 32:5Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.
- Nehemiah 4:17They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
- Nehemiah 4:23So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
- Job 33:18He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
- Job 36:12But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
- Song of Solomon 4:13Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁ֫לַח shelach · missile
1) weapon, missile, sprout 1a) missile, weapon 1b) sprout, shoot
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “missile” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MIS'SILE, adjective
[Latin missilis, from missus, sent; mitto, to send.]
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.