Banishment
שְׁרֹשִׁיStrong’s H8332sheroshu (she-ro-shu)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Sheroshu is the Aramaic word usually translated “banishment”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.”
Meaning
- Uprooting, banishment
How it's translated
- to banishment 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
שְׁרֹשִׁי sheroshu · banishment
uprooting, banishment
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “banishment” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BAN'ISHMENT, noun
The act of a prince or government, compelling a citizen to leave his country, either for a limited time or forever, as for some crime.
- A voluntary forsaking of one's country upon oath, called abjuration. [This practice has now ceased in G.Britain.]
- The state of being banished; exile.
- The act of driving away or dispelling; as the banishment of care from the mind.
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.