שְׁלֹמֹה
Shᵉlômôh · shel-o-mo'
Shelomah, David's successor
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7965 (שָׁלוֹם); peaceful;
Shelomah, David's successor
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Solomon.
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
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › authority, the one who leads › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to reveal, behold
To consume, to destroy of authority, the one who leads of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שְׁלֹמֹה 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
293 occurrences · 293 OT · 0 NT · 48 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- solomon84 · 32%
- and solomon49 · 19%
- of solomon40 · 15%
- to solomon15 · 6%
- which solomon9 · 3%
- then solomon8 · 3%
- unto solomon7 · 3%
- of solomon's7 · 3%
- that solomon6 · 2%
- solomon's5 · 2%
- did solomon4 · 2%
- so solomon4 · 2%
- and solomon's4 · 2%
- for solomon4 · 2%
- and to solomon3 · 1%
- but solomon2 · 1%
- which is solomon's2 · 1%
- thus solomon2 · 1%
- and also solomon1 · 0%
- hath made solomon1 · 0%
- and caused solomon1 · 0%
- even so be he with solomon1 · 0%
- and cause solomon1 · 0%
- assuredly solomon1 · 0%
- saying, assuredly solomon1 · 0%
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.