Strong’s H7951 · Hebrew
שָׁלָה
shâlâh · shaw-law'
Origin or שָׁלַו; (Job 3:26), a primitive root;
Meaning to be tranquil, i.e. secure or successful
In the King James Version be happy, prosper, be in safety.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Job 3:26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
- Job 12:6The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
- Psalms 122:6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
- Jeremiah 12:1Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
- Lamentations 1:5Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.