שָׁכֹל
sha.khol
“be bereaved”
Definition
properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)
a primitive root;
- to be bereaved, make childless, miscarry 1a) (Qal) to be bereaved 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to make childless 1b2) to cause barrenness, show barrenness or abortion 1b3) to miscarry 1c) (Hiphil) miscarrying (participle)
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Grammar & Morphology
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
שָׁכֹל appears 21 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
But Samuel declared:“As your sword has made women childless,so your mother will be childless among women.”And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.
No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
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Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”
I will scatter them with a winnowing forkat the gates of the land.I will bereave and destroy My peoplewho have not turned from their ways.
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