Σαλά
Shelah
Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Shelah’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Every verse where G4527 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 2 verses
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
Σαλα (Salá) is a Greek name most often rendered “Shelah.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Luke dominates its distribution — 2 of 2 verses. Scripture first uses it in Luke 3:32. For the data behind this summary, explore 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4527 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 2 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Was the son of sala 1×
- American Standard Version: Son of shelah 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sala 1×, Shelah 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Salmon 1×, Shelah 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4527 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4527 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4527 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4527 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Salah = "sprout"
- the son of Arphaxad, and father of Eber
Word origin
Derived from שלח (Shelach) (H7974) — Shelah.
Of hebrew origin [ H7974 ]; Sala (that is Shelach ) a patriarch : - Sala.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Shelah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Petition. (1.) Judah's third son (Gen. 38:2, 5, 11, 14).
(2.) A son of Arphaxad (1 Chr. 1:18).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(a petition).
+ The youngest son of Judah. (Genesis 38:5,11,14,26; 46:10; Numbers 26:20; 1 Chronicles 2:3; 4:21) (B.C. before 1706.) + The proper form of the name of Salah. (1 Chronicles 1:18,24)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
that breaks; that unties; that undresses
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word Σαλα appears 7 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5 verses in 2 books.
- 7
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 5
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 10:24 σαλα
- 1 Chronicles 1:12 σαλα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4527) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 10:24 σαλα Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.
- Genesis 11:13 σαλα Arpachshad lived after he became the father of Shelah four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:14 σαλα Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
- Genesis 11:15 σαλα and Shelah lived after he became the father of Eber four hundred three years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
- 1 Chronicles 1:12 σαλα and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whence came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4527) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
