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Strong's #8003 - שָׁלֵם
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- complete, safe, peaceful, perfect, whole, full, at peace
- complete
- full, perfect
- finished
- safe, unharmed
- peace (of covenant of peace, mind)
- perfect, complete (of keeping covenant relation)
- complete
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2845) mls (סהלמ ShLM) AC: Complete CO: ? AB: ?: Made whole or complete by adding or subtracting. [from: lx- as a drawing out or in]
V) mls (סהלמ ShLM) - Complete: To be in a state of wholeness. Also to restore or make right through payment or restitution. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (119): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Hophal, Pual, Piel, Participle) pay, peace, recompense, reward, render, restore, repay, perform, good, end, requite, restitution, finish, again, amend, full, deliver - Strongs: H7999 (שָׁלֵם), H8000 (שְׁלִם)
Nm) mls (סהלמ ShLM) - I. Complete:A state of being whole, complete or full. Also an offering of restitution or payment. II. Shelam:A greeting as a desire for completeness to another. [Aramaic only] KJV (118): perfect, whole, full, just, peaceable, peace offering, peace - Strongs: H8001 (שְׁלָם), H8002 (שֶׁלֶם), H8003 (שָׁלֵם)
cm) mfls (סהלומ ShLWM) - I. Completeness: II. Shalom:A greeting as a desire for completeness to another. KJV (236): peace, well, peaceable, welfare, prosperity, safe, health - Strongs: H7965 (שָׁלֹם)
em) mlis (סהילמ ShYLM) - Recompense: In the sense of making complete. KJV (1): recompense - Strongs: H8005 (שִׁלֵּם)
jm) nfmls (סהלמונ ShLMWN) - Payment: Given to make a completion of an action or transaction. KJV (1): reward - Strongs: H8021 (שַׁלְמֹנִים)
edm) mflis (סהילומ ShYLWM) - Payment: Given to make a completion of an action or transaction. KJV (3): recompense, reward - Strongs: H7966 (שְׁלֻּם)
edf1) emflis (סהילומה ShYLWMH) - Payment: Given to make a completion of an action or transaction. KJV (1): reward - Strongs: H8011 (שִׁלֻּמָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 complete:
a. full, perfect: אָבָן שְׁלֵמָה full weight Deuteronomy 25:15, ׳אֵיפָה שׁ Deuteronomy 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; ᵐ5משֵׁל מַיִם, 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 Genesis 28:21; not proper name, of a location as Vrss).
3 in covt. of peace, friendship, with אֵת Genesis 34:21 (P); ׳לֵבָב שָׁלֵם עִם י a mind at peace with ׳י, keeping covt. relation, hence complete, perfect, 1 Kings 8:61; 1 Kings 11:4; 1 Kings 15:3,14; with אֶל 2 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; 1 Chronicles 29:9.
שָׁלֵם m. שְׁלֵמָה f. adj.
(1) whole, perfect,
(a) i.e. of full and just number and measure, as אֶבֶן שְׁלֵמָה a just weight, Deuteronomy 25:15 compare Genesis 15:16 (where it is used of a full and just measure of sins); גָּלוּת שְׁלֵמָה a full number of captives, Amos 1:6,.
(b) sound, safe, Genesis 33:18 of an army, Nahum 1:12. אֲבָנִים שָׁלֵמוֹת are stones which have been untouched, are unviolated by iron, i.e. rough, unhewn Deuteronomy 27:6; 1 Kings 6:7.
(2) completed, finished, 2 Chronicles 8:16.
(3) cherishing peace and friendship (see the root in Pual, Hiphil, Hophal). Genesis 34:21, שְׁלֵמִים הֵם אִתָּנוּ “they live peaceably with us;” specially שׁ׳ עִם יְהֹוָה devoted to God, at peace with him, 1 Kings 8:61, 11:4 15:3, 14 1 Kings 15:14 and without these words, 2 Kings 20:3; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 2 Chronicles 15:17. Compare Hiphil No. 2; (also صُسْلِمُ devoted to God and to Mahomet, one who professes the Mahometan religion.)
(4) [Salem, Shalem], pr.n. i.q. יְרוּשָׁלֵם Jerusalem, as to the etymology of which, see p. 367, A, Genesis 14:18; Psalms 76:3. Josephus (Antiq. i. 10, § 2 ), τὴν μέντοι Σόλυμα ὕστερον ἐκάλεσαν Ἱεροσόλυμα. See Relandi Palæstina, p. 976. (Arab. ثَلَمُ, ثَلَّمُ id.).