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Shoot

שְׁלּוּחָהStrong’s H7976

shilluchah (shil-lu-chah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Shilluchah is the Hebrew word usually translated “shoots its”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.”
Isaiah 16:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. Shoot, branch
How it's translated
  • shoots its 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    שְׁלּוּחָה shilluchah · shoot

    shoot, branch

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “shoot” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    SHOOT, verb transitive

    prte. and participle passive shot. The old participle shotten, is obsolete. [Latin scateo, to shoot out water.]

    1. To let fly and drive with force; as, to shoot an arrow.
    2. To discharge and cause to be driven with violence; as, to shoot a ball.
    3. To let off; used of the instrument.
    4. To strike with any thing shot; as, to shoot with an arrow or a bullet.
    All definitions and other forms of “shoot”
    1. To send out; to push forth; as, a plant shoots a branch.
    2. To push out; to emit; to dart; to thrust forth.
    3. To push forward; to drive; to propel; as, to shoot a bolt.
    4. To push out; to thrust forward.“They shoot out the lip” Psalms 22:7
    5. To pass through with swiftness; as, to shoot the Stygian flood.
    6. To fit to each other by planing; a workman's term.
    7. To kill by a ball, arrow or other thing shot; as, to shoot a duck.

    SHOOT, verb intransitive

    1. To perform the act of discharging, sending with force, or driving any thing by means of an engine or instrument; as, ot shoot at a target or mark.“The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him” Genesis 49:23
    2. To germinate; to bud; to sprout; to send forth branches.
    3. To form by shooting, or by an arrangement of particles into spiculae.
    4. To be emitted, sent forth or driven along.
    5. To protuberate; to be pushed out; to jut; to project.
    6. To pass, as an arrow or pointed instrument; to penetrate.
    7. To grow rapidly; to become by rapid growth.
    8. To move with velocity; as a shooting star.
    9. To feel a quick darting pain.

    SHOOT, noun

    1. The act of propelling or driving any thing with violence; the discharge of a fire-arm or bow; as a good shot.
    2. The act of striking or endeavoring to strike with a massive weapon.
    3. A young branch.
    4. A young swine. [In New England pronounced shote.]

    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.