Lexical Summary sheleg: snow Original Word: שֶׁלֶגTransliteration: sheleg Phonetic Spelling: (sheh'-leg) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: snow Meaning: snow Strong's Concordance snowy From shalag; snow (probably from its whiteness) -- snow(-y). see HEBREW shalag Brown-Driver-Briggs H7950. sheleg שֶׁלֶ֫ג noun masculineIsaiah 55:10 snow; — absolute ׳שׁ 1:18 +, שָׁ֑לֶג Exodus 4:6 +; construct שֶׁ֫לֶג Jeremiah 18:14; — snow, 2 Samuel 23:20 (הַשּׁ ׳יוֺם) = 1 Chronicles 11:22; Job 6:16; 37:6 ("" מָטָר גֶּשֶׁם) Psalm 147:16; 148:8 ( + קִיטוֺר בָּרָד, אֵשׁ,); שׁ ׳מֵימֵי Job 24:19, compare 9:30 Qr (בְּמֵי, < Qr בְּמוֺ De Di Bu and others, snow as purifying; see also [מַי]; in poetry שׁ ׳אִצְרוֺת 38:22 ("" ׳א בָּרָד); symbolic of cold Proverbs 31:21; as moistening, fertilizing Isaiah 55:10 ("" גֶּשֶׁם); on mountains, figurative of normal habit, ׳שׁ לְבָנוֺן Jeremiah 18:14; simile of whiteness, of leprosy Exodus 4:6 (J), Numbers 12:10(E), 2 Kings 5:27; with מִן comp,, of fair skin Lamentations 4:7 ("" חָלָב); simile of sins, ׳כַּשּׁ יַלְבִּינוּ Isaiah 1:18, compare Psalm 51:9 (מִן compare); simile of refreshment Proverbs 25:13 (drink cooled by snow, see references in DeToy), of the unfitting ׳כַּשּׁ בַּקַיִץ 26:1 ("" מָטָר). — On snow in Palestine see NicolHast. DB SNOW. תְּלַג noun [masculine] snow (ᵑ7 Syriac; Biblical Hebrew שֶׁלֶג); — absolute ׳ת Daniel 7:9 (simile). |
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