Afterbirth
שִׁלְיָהStrong’s H7988shilyah (shil-yah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shilyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “on afterbirth her”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.”
Meaning
- Afterbirth
How it's translated
- and on afterbirth her 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁלְיָה shilyah · afterbirth
afterbirth
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “afterbirth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
'AFTER-BIRTH, noun
The appendages of the fetus, called also secundines.
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.