officer
sha.lish denotes military or royal personnel in command, while some adjectival occurrences mark numerical designations.
The noun forms most often identify personnel attached to armies, chariots, kings, or governing groups; the APB commonly presents them as officers or commanders. Adjectival forms occur in numerical statements about groups, slain persons, and written sayings, including both cardinal and ordinal morphology.
Senses in use
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Command personnel in military and royal settings · dominant
Plural noun forms occur over Egypt's chariots in Exodus 14:7 and among Pharaoh's forces in Exodus 15:4. In 1 Kings 9:22 and 2 Chronicles 8:9, construct plural forms stand in lists of Solomon's men of war and chariot personnel; in 2 Kings 7:2, 2 Kings 7:17, and 2 Kings 7:19, a singular noun identifies the man appointed over the gate who speaks with the man of God and is later trampled there. The APB renders these clauses with terms such as "officers," "commanders," and "the officer."
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Numerical designation · occasional
Cardinal adjective forms occur in accounts of David's mighty men: 1 Chronicles 11:11 names a head of the thirty and records three hundred slain, while 2 Samuel 23:8 identifies a head and reports eight hundred slain. In 2 Kings 9:25 the supplied form is likewise tagged as a masculine singular cardinal adjective, though the APB presents Bidkar in the clause as Jehu's "officer."
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Ordinal numerical expression · rare
In Proverbs 22:20, the plural masculine ordinal adjective occurs in the question about written sayings with counsel and knowledge. The APB renders the verse, "Have I not written to you thirty sayings," but the translation does not isolate the adjective's contribution.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the noun occurrences, the APB commonly uses "officers," and in some military lists uses "commanders" or "chariot commanders." Its numerical wording varies by verse, and Those English terms do not by themselves determine the contribution of each adjectival form.