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Strong's #7887 - שִׁלוֹ
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- 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
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proper name, of a location (originally שִׁלוֺן, see adjective, of a people (otherwise Ba NB § 224 b), which also shews that √ שׁול, שׁיל, was posited when text of Kings was fixed, compare Dr 2 Samuel 15:12); — שִׁלוֺ Judges 21:19; 1 Samuel 1:24; 1 Samuel 3:21; 1 Samuel 14:3; Jeremiah 7:14 (on destruction of Shiloh see We 2 Samuel 8:17), Jeremiah 26:9; Jeremiah 41:5, ׳מִשְׁכַּן שׁ Psalm 78:60; שִׁילוֺ Judges 21:21 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 7:12; שִׁלֹה Joshua 18:1,8,9,10; Joshua 19:51; Joshua 21:2; Joshua 22:9,12 (all P or R), Judges 18:31; Judges 21:12; 1 Samuel 1:3,9; 1 Samuel 2:14; 1 Samuel 3:21; 1 Samuel 4:3,4,12; 1 Kings 2:27; 1 Kings 14:2,4; Jeremiah 26:6 (variant reading שִׁלוֺ in all these [21t.] given by Gi as Qr). — Σηλωμ, Σηλω(ν). — Modern Seilûn, approximately 91/2miles north-northeast of Bethel: (Beitîn), Buhl G 178 Dr Hast. DB SHlLOH.