שָׁלוֹם
sha.lom
peace
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Šālōm (שָׁלוֹם): A Word with Broad Reach The Hebrew word šālōm appears 164 times throughout the biblical text, making it a term of considerable importance in ancient Israelite discourse. While commonly translated as "peace," this single English word conceals the semantic range the Hebrew term likely encompassed. The frequency of occurrence suggests that concepts related to šālōm held sustained significance for biblical authors and their audiences across various literary contexts and time periods. Without additional context data showing specific usage patterns, we can only note that a word appearing this frequently would typically serve multiple communicative functions—from literal references to the absence of conflict to more abstract or figurative applications. The persistence of šālōm across 164 biblical occurrences indicates it addressed persistent concerns or values within ancient Israelite culture. However, determining precisely how the meaning shifted between contexts, whether it primarily denoted political stability, personal wellbeing, divine favor, or some combination thereof, would require examination of individual passages and their surrounding textual environments—analysis beyond what the frequency and basic definition alone can provide.
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Occurrences in Scripture
164 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.” ’ ” They brought back word to the king.
Ezra 9:12Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
Esther 9:30He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,
Esther 10:3For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants.
Job 5:24You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.
Job 25:2“Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.
Psalms 4:8In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.
Psalms 28:3Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
Psalms 29:11Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.
Psalms 34:14Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
Psalms 35:20For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
Psalms 37:11But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Psalms 37:37Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
Psalms 69:22Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
Psalms 72:7In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.
Psalms 85:8I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
Psalms 85:10Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Psalms 119:165Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
Psalms 120:6My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.
Psalms 120:7I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.
Psalms 122:6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.
Psalms 122:7Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.
Psalms 122:8For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”
Psalms 125:5But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
Psalms 128:6Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.
Psalms 147:14He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
Proverbs 3:2for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.
Proverbs 3:17Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
Proverbs 12:20Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:8a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
Song of Solomon 8:10I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.
Isaiah 9:6For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
Isaiah 53:5But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 26:3You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
Isaiah 26:3You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
Isaiah 26:12Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.
Isaiah 27:5Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”
Isaiah 27:5Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”
Isaiah 32:17The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
Isaiah 32:18My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places,
Isaiah 33:7Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
Isaiah 39:8Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”
Isaiah 48:18Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Isaiah 48:22“There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”
Isaiah 52:7How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
Isaiah 54:10For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
Isaiah 54:13All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.
Isaiah 55:12For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
Isaiah 57:2He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.