Shield
שֶׁ֫לֶטStrong’s H7982shelet (she-let)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shelet is the Hebrew word usually translated “shields of”, “shields” and “shields their”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.”
Meaning
- Shield
How it's translated
- shields of 3
- the shields 3
- shields their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
- 2 Kings 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Song of Solomon 1
- Jeremiah 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 11:10And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David’s spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.
- 1 Chronicles 18:7And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 23:9Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David’s, which were in the house of God.
- Song of Solomon 4:4Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
- Jeremiah 51:11Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
- Ezekiel 27:11The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁ֫לֶט shelet · shield
shield
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shield” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHIELD, verb transitive
- To cover, as with a shield; to cover from dasnger; to defend; to protect; to secure form assault or injury.
- To ward off; to defend against; as clothes shield one from the cold.
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.