Lexicon
שֶׁ֫לֶט
she.let
H7982
H:N-M Hebrew

shield

7
Occurrences
7
Books
Hebrew
Language

she.let denotes protective equipment, taken as spoil, kept in royal stores, issued for defense, or hung on walls.

The term consistently denotes protective equipment: items taken from Hadadezer's servants, held in royal or sacred stores and distributed to commanders, prepared alongside arrows, or hung on walls and an armory tower. The supplied verses do not require separate lexical senses beyond this recurring use.

Senses in use

  1. Protective equipment in military and display settings · dominant

    The plural forms identify items taken by David in 2 Samuel 8:7 and 1 Chronicles 18:7, given with spears to commanders in 2 Kings 11:10 and 2 Chronicles 23:9, and prepared alongside arrows in Jeremiah 51:11. In Ezekiel 27:11 and Song of Songs 4:4, the construct forms occur in clauses about such items being hung on walls or on the tower of David; the APB renders these clauses with "shields."

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB presents the term as "shields," whether the items are taken, stored, issued, prepared, or hung. This rendering is confirmed by the surrounding equipment and wall-hanging clauses rather than treated as a separate definition.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture