Lexical Summary shelem: a sacrifice for alliance or friendship, peace offering Original Word: שֶׁלֶםTransliteration: shelem Phonetic Spelling: (sheh'-lem) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a sacrifice for alliance or friendship, peace offering Meaning: a sacrifice for alliance or friendship, peace offering Strong's Concordance peace offering From shalam; properly, requital, i.e. A (voluntary) sacrifice in thanks -- peace offering. see HEBREW shalam Brown-Driver-Briggs H8002. shelem שֶׁ֫לֶם87 noun [masculine] sacrifice for alliance or friendship, 'peace-offering' (explanation disputed: originally sacrifice for alliance Di; al. peace-offering (mark of peace with God), ᵐ5Sm. Kings Proverbs εἰρηνική, De StaG i. 496 WeHeid. 71 (fellowship between God and worshippers); welfare-offering, ᵐ5 elsewhere σωτήριον, Ke; thank-offering (as due rendered for benefit, or in paying vow, compare v Pi`el 4, and Proverbs 7:14) Ges Ew Kn; sacred meal its special feature: see RSSemitic i. 219; 2nd ed. 237; NowArchaeology ii. 211 f. GFMEncy. Bib. SACRIFICE, § 11; Assyrian šulmu = שֶׁלֶם is cited by J JeremEncy. Bib. RITUAL, § 11); — construct ׳שׁ Amos 5:22; elsewhere plural שְׁלָמִים Exodus 24:5 69t.; construct שַׁלְמֵי Leviticus 10:14; suffix שְׁלָמֶ֫יךָ Exodus 20:24, etc.; plural is abstract intensive Leviticus 7:13; Numbers 6:17 (P) +; plural of number Exodus 24:5 (JE), 1 Samuel 11:15 +; usually hard to decide; ׳שׁ (in app.) defines זְכָּחִים Exodus 24:5 (JE), and so זבח of covt. of Horeb is ׳שׁ, as also sacrifice for Saul 1 Samuel 11:15; following phrase shew ׳שׁ essentially = זבחים in like phrase (see זבח); ׳שׁ coming to mean ׳ז in all ritual; over against עוֺלוֺת Exodus 20:24; 32:6 (JE), Leviticus 6:5 (P), Deuteronomy 27:7; Joshua 8:31 (D), Judges 20:26; 21:4; 1 Samuel 13:9; 2 Samuel 6:17-18, 24:25; 1 Kings 3:15; 9:25; 1 Chronicles 16:1-2, 21:26; 2 Chronicles 31:2; Ezekiel 43:27; 45:17; 46:2, 12; so in longer lists Leviticus 9:4, 22; Numbers 6:14; 29:39 (P), 1 Kings 8:64 (twice in verse); 16:13; 2 Chronicles 7:7; 29:35; Ezekiel 45:15, 17; 46:12; and when ׳שׁ alone Leviticus 7:14, 33; in P ׳שׁ defines ׳ז in construct singular or plural: Exodus 29:28; Leviticus 3:1 34t. P, 17:5; 19:5; 22:21; 23:19 (H), so 1 Samuel 10:8; 1 Kings 8:63; 2 Chronicles 30:22; 33:16; Proverbs 7:14; ׳ז ׳שׁ of H and P including נדבה נדר, תודה, Leviticus 7:12, 16, and so שׁ תודה ׳זבח 7:13; 7:15; ׳שׁ distinguished from (larger) ׳ז in lists עולות ׳ז, ׳שׁ, Joshua 22:27 (P); עלה ׳ז, נדר, Numbers 15:8 (P); ׳שׁ distinguished from נְדָבָה Ezekiel 46:12 (where may = either of other two); from נדבות נדרים, Numbers 29:39 (P) (and must then reference to תודות); from נדר 15:8 (P); apparently then not distinguished from תּוֺדָה תּוֺדוֺת,2 Chronicles 33:16 being probably specification. |
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