שָׁכֹל shakhol

Hebrew word for “be bereaved” · Strong’s H7921 · used 23 times in 21 verses

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Meaning

1) to be bereaved, make childless, miscarry;

Senses in the lexicon

• be bereaved (21)
• barenness (2)

How it is translated

Glosses given for shakhol in context, with how often each is used:

• will make childless 4
• have been bereaved 2
• will bereave 2
• will i be bereaved 1
• have miscarried 1
• making childless 1
• miscarrying 1
• has made childless 1
• will become childless 1
• miscarries 1
• have made childless 1
• has bereaved 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 36 (3), 2 Kings 2 (2), Hosea 9 (2), Genesis 27 (1), Genesis 31 (1), Genesis 42 (1), Genesis 43 (1), Exodus 23 (1), Leviticus 26 (1), Deuteronomy 32 (1)

Forms

• תשׁכל 4
• שׁכלתי 3
• שׁכלה 2
• ומשׁכלת 2
• אשׁכל 1
• שׁכלו 1
• שׁכלתם 1
• משׁכלה 1
• ושׁכלה 1
• ושׁכלך 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shakhol more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חֶרֶב cherev “sword” 4
• כֶם khem “you” 4
• אָדָם adam “man” 4
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 4
• שָׁלַח shalach “to send” 4
• חַי chay “alive” 3
• עוֹד od “still” 3
• עָבַר avar “to pass” 3
• רַע ra “bad” 3
• גַּם gam “also” 3
• מָוֶת mavet “death” 2
• חוּץ chuts “outside” 2

Key verses

The verses using shakhol that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 42:36 — And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin all these things are against me.
• Genesis 43:14 — And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
• Exodus 23:26 — There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
• Leviticus 26:22 — I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be…
• Deuteronomy 32:25 — The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
• 1 Samuel 15:33 — And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in…
• 2 Kings 2:19 — And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the…
• 2 Kings 2:21 — And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from…
• Jeremiah 15:7 — And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
• Lamentations 1:20 — Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at…
• Ezekiel 5:17 — So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon…
• Hosea 9:12 — Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.