שָׁלַף shalaph

Hebrew word for “to draw” · Strong’s H8025 · used 25 times in 24 verses

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Meaning

1) to draw out or off, take off; 1a) (Qal); 1a1) to draw out; 1a2) to draw off; 1a3) to shoot up, draw out (of blade of grass on roof)

How it is translated

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

• who drew 7
• drawn 4
• drew out 2
• took off 2
• draw out 2
• who drew out 2
• drew 1
• draw 1
• drawers 1
• drawing 1
• will draw it out 1
• has shot up 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 20 (6), Numbers 22 (2), Judges 8 (2), Ruth 4 (2), 1 Chronicles 21 (2), Joshua 5 (1), Judges 3 (1), Judges 9 (1), 1 Samuel 17 (1), 1 Samuel 31 (1)

Forms

• שׁלף 18
• שׁלופה 3
• שׁלפה 1
• שׁלפי 1
• וישׁלף 1
• וישׁלפה 1

Words used with it

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

• חֶרֶב cherev “sword” 20
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 9
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 8
• בִּנְיָמִין binyamin “Benjamin” 5
• דָּקַר daqar “to pierce” 3
• נָפַל naphal “to fall” 5
• נָשָׂא nasa “to lift” 5
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 4
• רָאָה raah “to see” 6
• עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 4
• אֵלֶּה elleh “these” 5
• מִפְקָד miphqad “appointment” 2

Key verses

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

• Numbers 22:23 — And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field:…
• Numbers 22:31 — Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and…
• Joshua 5:13 — And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in…
• Judges 8:10 — Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east:…
• Judges 9:54 — Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his…
• Judges 20:2 — And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen…
• 1 Samuel 17:51 — Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith.…
• 1 Samuel 31:4 — Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But…
• 1 Chronicles 10:4 — Then said Saul to his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armourbearer would…
• 1 Chronicles 21:16 — And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over…
• Job 20:25 — It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
• Psalms 129:6 — Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

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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.