Lexicon
שֶׁ֫לַח
she.lach
H7975A
N:N--L Hebrew

Shelah

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she.lach is attested as the name of the pool named in Nehemiah’s wall-rebuilding description.

The term is attested as the name of a pool, marking the point from which a section of wall is described in Nehemiah 3:15.

Senses in use

  1. Name of a pool in a wall-boundary description · dominant

    In Nehemiah 3:15, the masculine singular absolute noun occurs in the phrase locating the wall from a pool toward the king’s garden; the APB renders the location as “the pool of Shelah.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Nehemiah 3:15, the APB presents the term in “the pool of Shelah.” It confirms the named-pool setting without establishing finer lexical detail.

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