Strong's Hebrew: 8168. שֹׁ֫עַל (shoal) -- hollow hand, handful

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shoal: hollow hand, handful

Original Word: שֹׁ֫עַל
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: shoal
Phonetic Spelling: (sho'-al)
Short Definition: handfuls

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from an unused word
Definition
hollow hand, handful
NASB Translation
handfuls (2), hollow of his hand (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[שֹׁ֫עַל] noun [masculine] hollow hand, handful; —

1 hollow hand: suffix בְּשָׁעֳלוֺ Isaiah 40:12 (figurative of ׳י holding waters).

2 handful: plural שְׁעָלִים 1 Kings 20:10 (dust, in hyperb.); construct שַׁעֲלֵי שְׂעֹרִים (as if from [שַׁ֫עַל] Kö^{ii. l. 35}) Ezekiel 13:19 handfuls of barley.

Strong's

handful, hollow of the hand

From an unused root meaning to hollow out; the palm; by extension, a handful -- handful, hollow of the hand.