Lexicon
שֶׁ֫לֶג
she.leg
H7950
H:N-M Hebrew

snow

20
Occurrences
11
Books
Hebrew
Language

she.leg is snow, appearing as a weather phenomenon and as an image of whiteness, coolness, and seasonal conditions.

The occurrences denote snow as a weather phenomenon—falling, lying on the landscape, stored, melting, or feared—and also employ it in comparisons involving whiteness, coolness, and inappropriate seasonal conditions. The construct form in Jeremiah 18:14 occurs in the phrase rendered “the snow of Lebanon,” while the remaining supplied forms are singular absolute nouns.

Senses in use

  1. Snow in weather scenes and comparisons · dominant

    The singular noun occurs in scenes of snowfall and its effects: in Isaiah 55:10 the APB renders rain and snow coming down and watering the earth, while Job 37:6 renders a command for snow to fall on the earth. It also appears in the APB’s “storehouses of the snow” in Job 38:22, “the snow of Lebanon” in Jeremiah 18:14, and comparisons of leprous whiteness in Exodus 4:6 and harvest-day coolness in Proverbs 25:13.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term explicitly as “snow,” including falling snow, snow of Lebanon, snow water, and snowy conditions. In Psalm 51:9, however, the supplied APB verse does not explicitly include snow, so the translation does not isolate the term in every occurrence.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture