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Song of Solomon 4:13

“Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

שֶׁלַחshelach · sheh'-lakh
H7973 · Hebrew

Definition: a missile of attack, i.e. spear; also (figuratively) a shoot of growth; i.e. branch
Derivation: from H7971 (שָׁלַח);
KJV renderings: dart, plant, [idiom] put off, sword, weapon.
Grammar: שְׁלָחַ֨יִ — common noun, masculine, plural, construct
ךְ֙ — suffix (pronominal), 2nd person, feminine, singular
Code HNcmpc/Sp2fs
Usage: Occurs 8 times in the Hebrew Bible.2 Chronicles 23:10 2 Chronicles 32:5 Nehemiah 4:11 Nehemiah 4:17 Job 33:18

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שֶׁלַח here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.