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HebrewH7887Noun

שִׁלוֹ

shi.loh

30Occurrences
H7887Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Shiloh, a place in Palestine

or שִׁלֹה; or שִׁילוֹ; or שִׁלוֹ; from the same as H7886 (שִׁילֹה);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Shiloh = "place of rest" a city in Ephraim and temporary home of the Ark of the Covenant and the Tabernacle, the place where Samuel grew up Also named: shi.lo.ni (*שִׁילֹנִי *"Shilonite" H7888)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

שִׁלוֹ appears 30 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Samuel
9
Joshua
8
Jeremiah
5
Judges
4
1 Kings
3
Psalms
1

Key Passages

1 Kings 14:2BSB

and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Now get up, disguise yourself so they will not recognize you as my wife, and go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who spoke about my kingship over this people.

1 Samuel 14:3BSB

including Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh. But the troops did not know that Jonathan had left.

Judges 18:31BSB

So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.

Jeremiah 41:5BSB

eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, carrying grain offerings and frankincense for the house of the LORD.

Joshua 18:10BSB

And Joshua cast lots for them in the presence of the LORD at Shiloh, where he distributed the land to the Israelites according to their divisions.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.