שָׁלוֹם
shâlôwm · shaw-lome'
safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace
Lexicon
Derivation: or שָׁלֹם; from H7999 (שָׁלַם);
safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace
- safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly
- also, (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] do, familiar, [idiom] fare, favour, [phrase] friend, [idiom] great, (good) health, ([idiom] perfect, such as be at) peace(-able, -ably), prosper(-ity, -ous), rest, safe(-ty), salute, welfare, ([idiom] all is, be) well, [idiom] wholly.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading
to consume, to destroy › authority, the one who leads › to fasten and establish › water, chaos, the mighty deep
Destroy (shin) the authority (lamed) that establishes (vav) chaos (mem), peace read not as the absence of conflict but as chaos put down and order restored.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׁלוֹם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
237 occurrences · 237 OT · 0 NT · 91 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- peace42 · 27%
- in peace36 · 24%
- of peace20 · 13%
- and peace8 · 5%
- peaceably7 · 5%
- is it peace4 · 3%
- for peace3 · 2%
- did3 · 2%
- shall be in peace2 · 1%
- shall have peace2 · 1%
- thou peaceably2 · 1%
- and saluted2 · 1%
- ye shall have peace2 · 1%
- all is well2 · 1%
- their peace2 · 1%
- there is no peace2 · 1%
- with peace2 · 1%
- what hast thou to do with peace2 · 1%
- safe2 · 1%
- when there is no peace2 · 1%
- to salute2 · 1%
- whether it be well1 · 1%
- he is well1 · 1%
- unto them, is he well1 · 1%
- from him in peace1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.