H7950

שֶׁ֫לֶג

she.legH:N-M

snow

snow Aramaic equivalent: te.lag (תְּלַג "snow" H8517)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

שֶׁלֶ֫ג noun masculineIsa 55:10 snow; — absolute ׳שׁ Isa 1:18 +, שָׁ֑לֶג Exod 4:6 +; construct שֶׁ֫לֶג Jer 18:14 — snow, 2Sam 23:20 (׳יוֺם הַשּׁ) = 1Chr 11:22; Job 6:16; Job 37:6 (|| גֶּשֶׁם מָטָר) Ps 147:16; Ps 148:8 ( + אֵשׁ, בָּרָד, קִיטוֺר); ׳מֵימֵי שׁ Job 24:19, compare Job 9:30 Qr (בְּמֵי, < Qr בְּמוֺ De Di Bu and others, snow as purifying; see also [מַי]; in poetry ׳אִצְרוֺת שׁ Job 38:22 (|| בָּרָד ׳א); symbolic of cold Prov 31:21 as moistening, fertilizing Isa 55:10 (|| גֶּשֶׁם); on mountains, figurative of normal habit, לְבָנוֺן ׳שׁ Jer 18:14 simile of whiteness, of leprosy Exod 4:6 (J), Num 12:10(E), 2Kgs 5:27 with מִן comp,, of fair skin Lam 4:7 (|| חָלָב); simile of sins, יַלְבִּינוּ ׳כַּשּׁ Isa 1:18, compare Ps 51:9 (מִן compare); simile of refreshment Prov 25:13 (drink cooled by snow, see references in DeToy), of the unfitting בַּקַיִץ ׳כַּשּׁ Prov 26:1 (|| מָטָר). — On snow in Palestine see NicolHast. DB SNOW.



תְּלַג noun [masculine] snow (ᵑ7 Syriac; Biblical Hebrew שֶׁלֶג); — absolute ׳ת Dan 7:9 (simile).


11 occurrences

Numbers (1), Job (3), Psalms (2), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (1), Lamentations (1)