שֶׁלֶג sheleg

Hebrew word for “snow” · Strong’s H7950 · used 20 times in 20 verses

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Meaning

snow; Aramaic equivalent: te.lag (תְּלַג "snow" H8517)

How it is translated

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

• snow 13
• like snow 5
• more than snow 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 4 (1), Numbers 12 (1), 2 Samuel 23 (1), 2 Kings 5 (1), 1 Chronicles 11 (1), Job 6 (1), Job 9 (1), Job 24 (1), Job 37 (1), Job 38 (1)

Forms

• שׁלג 8
• כשׁלג 5
• השׁלג 2
• משׁלג 2
• לשׁלג 1
• ומשׁלג 1
• והשׁלג 1

Words used with it

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

• צָרַע tsara “be leprous” 3
• אֲרִיאֵל ariel “Ariel” 2
• קַבְצְאֵל qavtseel “Kabzeel” 2
• זָכַךְ zakhakh “be clean” 2
• לָבֵן laven “to whiten” 2
• אָדֹם adam “to redden” 2
• צֶמֶר tsemer “wool” 2
• בָּרָד barad “hail” 2
• גֶּשֶׁם geshem “rain” 2
• מָטַר matar “rain” 2
• פֹּעַל poal “work” 2
• אִם im “if” 4

Key verses

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

• Numbers 12:10 — And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
• 2 Samuel 23:20 — And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a…
• 2 Kings 5:27 — The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
• 1 Chronicles 11:22 — Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion…
• Job 9:30 — If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
• Job 37:6 — For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
• Psalms 51:7 — Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
• Psalms 148:8 — Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
• Proverbs 26:1 — As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
• Isaiah 1:18 — Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they…
• Isaiah 55:10 — For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give…
• Lamentations 4:7 — Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:

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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.