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Words
Σηλώμ G90491
- Home gloss
- Shela
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- Shelah / Shelah / Selom
- Note
- Judah's third son (38:5–26), the Masoretic version's שֵׁלָה, printed "Shela" to keep him apart from Shelah (Σαλά, 10:24; 110). Swete's form has a final mu (145f)
- Rulings
- 18, 110, 145
Occurrences (5)
- 38:5 And having added further, she bore a son, and she called his name Shela; now she was in Chezib at the time when she bore them.
- 38:11 Now Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Sit a widow in the house of your father until Shela my son comes to be great"; for he said, "Lest he too die just like his brothers." Now Tamar, having gone away, sat in the house of her father.
- 38:14 And having taken off the cloaks of widowhood from herself, she threw around herself a summer veil and beautified herself, and sat down at the gates of Enaim, which is on the passage of Timnah; for she saw that Shela his son had come to be great, but he did not give her to him for a woman.
- 38:26 Now Judah recognized and said, "Tamar has been justified rather than I, because I did not give her to Shela my son." And he did not add further to come to know her.
- 46:12 Now the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shela and Perez and Zerah. But Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. Now the sons of Perez came to be Hezron and Jemuel.