שָׁלוֹם
shalom
completeness
Strong's H7965NounHebrewTWOT 2401aEmotions

שָׁלוֹם (shalom) is a Hebrew noun meaning completeness. It appears 237 times in 31 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H7965).

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Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2401a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 2401a)completeness, soundness, welfare, peace; safety; health, prosperity; quiet, tranquility, contentment; friendship; safe, well, happy, friendly; familiar, favour, friend, peaceable, peaceably, prosper, prosperous, rest, salute
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

שָׁלוֹם noun, masculine: completeness, soundness, welfare, peace

Strong's H7965 שָׁלוֹם: safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace
KJV:× do, familiar, × fare, favour, friend, × great, (good) health, (× perfect, such as be at) peace(-able, -ably), prosper(-ity, -ous), rest, safe(-ty), salute, welfare, (× all is, be) well, × wholly.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 2401: שָׁלֵם šālēm — be complete, sound; finished, ended, uninjured; make safe, make whole, good, restore, make good, pay, requite, recompense, reward; be performed, be repaid, requited; make an end of; be safe, be, make, completed, be friendly…

See it in Scripture

Genesis 15:15Exodus 4:18Leviticus 26:6

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