שַׁלְוָה
quietness
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
3 distinct verses where H7962 appears in the Construct state, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Proverbs 1 verse
Jeremiah 1 verse
Ezekiel 1 verse
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.
שלוה (shalvâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “quietness.” Debuting at Psalms 122:7, it then recurs through the corpus. With 8 verses in 5 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Daniel, which alone accounts for 38% of its uses. From the same root come שלה, שילה and שלה. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7962 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 75%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 25%
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: Peaceably 2×, Prosperity 2×
- American Standard Version: Time of security 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Time of peace 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Prosperity 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7962 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7962 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7962 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7962 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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.
- quietness, ease, prosperity
Word origin
n.f. quietness, ease;—abs. שׁ׳ ψ 122:7 +; cstr. שַׁלְוַת Ez 16:49; Pr 1:32; pl. sf. שַׁלְוֹתַ֫יִךְ Je 22:21 (שַׁלְוָתֵךְ Vrss Gie);—quietness, peace, Pr 17:1 (opp. רִיב), ψ 122:7 (‖ שָׁלוֹם); ease, careless security, Ez 16:49 (שַׁלְוַת הַשְׁקֵט), Pr 1:32; prosperity, Je 22:21; בְּשׁ׳ in (time of) security (of sudden attack), if not unawares Dn 8:25; 11:21, 24 (Thes Ew Hi Ke al.); cf. ܡܶܢ ܣܒܶܠܝ lit. out of quiet, i.e. suddenly, unawares (e.g. 1 Macc 1:30 = ἐξάπινα), מִן שִׁלְיָא 𝔗 Pr 3:25; 6:15 (= פִּתְאֹם), ψ 30:7 v. [שָׁ֫לוּ].
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שלה (shâlâh) (H7951) — to be at rest.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
לָוָה
- , v. לוי
לוי
- (b. h.)
- 1. to join, be connected, v. Piel, a. לְוָיָה.
- 2. (cmp. Sm. Ant. s. v. Nexum) to assume an obligation; to borrow. Shebu. 41ᵇ; Keth. 88ᵃ; B. Bath. 6ᵃ האומר לא לָוִיתִי וכ׳ he who (being sued for a loan duly testified by witnesses) says, ‘I have not contracted any loan’, is considered as admitting that he has not paid. Ḥull. 84ᵃ כגון אנו לווִֹין אוכלין (delicate persons) like ourselves may buy food on credit. B. Mets. 72ᵇ אין לווִֹין על שער וכ׳ (also לוִֹין) you must not borrow money with the choice of repaying in grain at the present price; (another defin., v. Rashi a. l.). Bets. 15ᵇ לְווּ עלי make a loan on my (the Lord’s) account; a. v. fr.—Esp. לווֶֹה, לוֶֹה debtor, opp. to מַלְוֶה creditor. Shebu. 47ᵃ מת ל׳ בחיי מ׳ if the debtor died before the creditor; a. fr.—Pl. לווִֹין. Ib.ᵇ שני מלווין ושני ל׳ two (different) creditors and two debtors.
- , לִי׳
- 1. to order an escort for protection, v. לְוָיָה. Tanḥ. Bal. 12; Num. R. s. 20 ל׳ להם ענני וכ׳ He appointed the clouds of glory to escort them. Sot. 46ᵇ בשביל … של׳ פרעה וכ׳ for the sake of the four steps which Pharaoh ordered his men to escort Abraham &c.
- 2. to escort, to walk a distance with a departing guest; to follow. Sabb. 119ᵇ שני מה"ש מְלַוִּין לו וכ׳ two ministering angels escort man to his house on the Sabbath eve. Sot. l. c. כל שאינו מְלַוֶּה ומִתְלַוֶּה וכ׳ whoever omits to escort a guest or (as a guest) declines an escort, is regarded as if he had shed blood; שאילמלא לִיוּוּהוּ וכ׳ for if the men of Jericho had escorted Elisha &c. Koh. R. to V, 17 ומה מְלַוֵּהוּ וכ׳ and what does escort him (to the grave)? Merits and good deeds; a. fr.
- 1. to join the company of, to associate. Midr. Till. to Ps. CIV, 26 (play on לויתן, ib.) כל מי שמִתְלַוֶּה עמהן עתיד להיעשות וכ׳ whosoever joins them (the Romans) will be made sport of with them in future days. Ib. כל מי שמתלוה עמהן עתיד הקב"ה וכ׳ him who joins them (the scholars), the Lord will cause to rejoice with them &c.; Yalk. ib. 862. Gen. R. s. 63, end; Yalk. ib. 111 שנתלוה עמו קלונו וכ׳ the disgrace of starvation was made his companion. Tanḥ. Vayishl. 3 להִתְלַוּוֹת לו to be his escort; a. fr.
- 2. to be escorted, to accept escort. Sot. l. c., v. supra.
- 1. to escort. Ber. 18ᵃ ואם הִלְוָהוּ if he does escort him (the dead).
- 2. to lend. EX. R. s. 31 מַלְוֶה ברבית lends on interest; מ׳ שלא ברבית without interest. Ib. שלא יַלְווּ וכ׳ that they must not lend &c. Ib. ראו כמה הִלְוֵיתִי ואיני … ומה הִלְוְותָה הארץ וכ׳ see how much I lend (to man,) without taking interest, and what the earth lends &c. B. Mets. V, 1 המלוה סלע בחמשה וכ׳ he who lends a Sela to get five Denars in return. Ib. 62ᵇ הַלְוֵינִי מנה lend me a Maneh.—B. Kam. 94ᵇ מַלְיֵי רבית (a. ברבית) those who lend on interest; B. Mets. 62ᵃ; a. fr.—מַלְוֶה creditor, v. supra.
שַׁלְוָה
- preced. art.) security, ease, contentment, happiness. Gen. R. s. 84 בשעה … יושבין בש׳ וכ׳ when the righteous dwell at ease, and desire to remain at ease in this world, Satan comes &c. Ab. IV, 15 אין … משַׁלְוַת הרשעים וכ׳ it is beyond our power to understand why the wicked are at ease, or why the righteous suffer. Gen. R. s. 49 עיקר שַׁלְוָותָהּ של סדום וכ׳ the real undisturbed prosperity of Sodom lasted only &c. Gen. R. s. 10, end, v. שַׁאֲנָן. Num. R. s. 123 רק בעיניך תביט שַׁלְוָתְךָ ‘thou shalt behold with thine eyes’ (Ps. XCI, 8) thy happiness. Yoma 86ᵇ, v. תַּקָּלָה; a. fr. e.g. Psalms 91:8
שַׁלְוָה ²
- Targ. Lam. I, 5, Targ. Ps. LXXVIII, 12. Targ. Y. Gen. XXXVII, 1; a. e.; v. שְׁלֵיוָא II
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H7962 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְ/שַׁלְוָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 11:21 | 1 |
| בְּ/שַׁלְוָ֞ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 11:24 | 1 |
| בְּ/שַׁלְוֺתַ֔יִ/ךְ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Jeremiah 22:21 | 1 |
| וְ/שַׁלְוַ֖ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Proverbs 1:32 | 1 |
| וְ/שַׁלְוַ֣ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 16:49 | 1 |
| וְ/שַׁלְוָה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 17:1 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/שַׁלְוָ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 8:25 | 1 |
| שַׁ֝לְוָ֗ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 122:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7962, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- שילה Shîylôh H7886 tranquillity
- שלה shᵉlâh H7954 at ease
- שלו sᵉlâv H7958 quail
- שלו shelev H7959 ease
- שלו shâlêv H7961 quiet
- שלי shᵉlîy H7987 quietness
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
