This is the name of Shelah: Judah's youngest son and his descendants.
Definition
the same as H7596 (shortened); request; Shelah, the name of a postdiluvian patriarch and of an Israelite
Traditional renderings: Shelah.
Traditional renderings: Shelah.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
8 total
- Genesis 38:5שֵׁלָ֑ה · ShelahThen she gave birth to another son and named him Shelah; it was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.
- Genesis 38:11שֵׁלָ֣ה · ShelahThen Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
- Genesis 38:14שֵׁלָ֔ה · although Shelah…she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.
- Genesis 38:26לְשֵׁלָ֣ה · ShelahJudah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.
- Genesis 46:12וְשֵׁלָ֖ה · ShelahThe sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
- Numbers 26:20לְשֵׁלָ֗ה · from ShelahThese were the descendants of Judah by their clans: The Shelanite clan from Shelah, the Perezite clan from Perez, and the Zerahite clan from Zerah.
- 1 Chronicles 2:3וְשֵׁלָ֔ה · and ShelahThe sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death.
- 1 Chronicles 4:21שֵׁלָ֣ה · of ShelahThe sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah and the clans of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea,