Lexical Summary shalem: complete, safe, at peace Original Word: שָׁלֵםTransliteration: shalem Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-lame') Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: complete, safe, at peace Meaning: complete, safe, at peace Strong's Concordance full, just, made ready, peaceable, perfected, quietFrom shalam; complete (literally or figuratively); especially friendly -- full, just, made ready, peaceable, perfect(-ed), quiet, Shalem (by mistake for a name), whole. see HEBREW shalam Brown-Driver-Briggs H8003. shalem I. שָׁלֵם adjective complete, safe, at peace; — ׳שׁ Genesis 15:16; +; plural שְׁלֵמִים 34:21; Nahum 1:12; feminine שְׁלֵמָה Deuteronomy 25:15 +; plural שְׁלֵמוֺת 27:6; Joshua 8:31; — 1 complete: a. full, perfect: שְׁלֵמָה אָבָן full weight Deuteronomy 25:15, שׁ ׳אֵיפָה 25:15; Proverbs 11:1; of עֶוֺן Genesis 15:16 (JE); number of captives Amos 1:6, 9; of army Nahum 1:12 (text corrupt; מַיִם משֵׁל ᵐ5, but ?; see Commentaries); of reward Ruth 2:12; of stones, whole (in natural condition, unhewn) Deuteronomy 27:6; Joshua 8:31 (compare law Exodus 20:25). b. finished: stones for temple 1 Kings 6:7; temple 2 Chronicles 8:16. 2 safe, unharmed, of person Genesis 33:18 (P; Samaritan שׁלוֺם, compare בשׁלום 28:21; not proper name, of a location as Vrss). 3 in covt. of peace, friendship, with אֵת Genesis 34:21 (P); י עִם שָׁלֵם ׳לֵבָב a mind at peace with ׳י, keeping covt. relation, hence complete, perfect, 1 Kings 8:61; 11:4; 15:3, 14; with אֶל2 Chronicles 16:9, אֶל omitted 2 Kings 20:3 = Isaiah 38:3 (לֵב), 1 Chronicles 12:38; 2 Chronicles 15:17; 19:9; 25:2; לֵב 1 Chronicles 28:9; 29:9. |