Shâkôl — H7921

Definition

verb

properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)

1. to be bereaved, make childless, miscarry
1. (Qal) to be bereaved
2. (Piel)
1. to make childless
2. to cause barrenness, show barrenness or abortion
3. to miscarry
3. (Hiphil) miscarrying (participle)

Usually translated as

bereave, barren, childless, cast calf, destroy, lose children, rob of children, spoil, be, deprive, expect, miscarry

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• asthenéō (G770)
• áteknos (G815)
• katesthíō (G2719)
• timōréō (G5097)

Occurrences

Shâkôl occurs 23 times in 21 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (4), Exodus (1), Leviticus (1), Deuteronomy (1), 1 Samuel (1), 2 Kings (2), Job (1), Jeremiah (1), Lamentations (1), Ezekiel (5), Hosea (2), Malachi (1)

• Genesis 27:45 — Until thy brother’s anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived (אֶשְׁכַּ֛ל) also of you both in one day?
• Genesis 31:38 — This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young (שִׁכֵּ֑לוּ), and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
• Genesis 42:36 — And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved (שִׁכַּלְתֶּ֑ם) of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
• Genesis 43:14 — And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved (שָׁכֹ֖לְתִּי) of my children, I am bereaved.
• Genesis 43:14 — And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved (שָׁכָֽלְתִּי).
• Exodus 23:26 — There shall nothing cast their young (מְשַׁכֵּלָ֥ה), nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
• Leviticus 26:22 — I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children (וְשִׁכְּלָ֣ה), and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
• Deuteronomy 32:25 — The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy (תְּשַׁכֶּל) both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
• 1 Samuel 15:33 — And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless (שִׁכְּלָ֤ה), so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
• 1 Samuel 15:33 — And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless (תִּשְׁכַּ֥ל) among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
• 2 Kings 2:19 — And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren (מְשַׁכָּֽלֶת).
• 2 Kings 2:21 — And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren (וּמְשַׁכָּֽלֶת) land.
• Job 21:10 — Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf (תְשַׁכֵּֽל).
• Jeremiah 15:7 — And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave (שִׁכַּ֤לְתִּי) them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
• Lamentations 1:20 — Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth (שִׁכְּלָה), at home there is as death.
• Ezekiel 5:17 — So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave (וְשִׁכְּלֻ֔ךְ) thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
• Ezekiel 14:15 — If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil (וְשִׁכְּלָ֑תָּה) it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
• Ezekiel 36:12 — Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave (לְשַׁכְּלָֽם) them of men.
• Ezekiel 36:13 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved (וּמְשַׁכֶּ֥לֶת) thy nations;
• Ezekiel 36:14 — Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave (תְשַׁכְּלִי) thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
• Hosea 9:12 — Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave (וְשִׁכַּלְתִּ֖ים) them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
• Hosea 9:14 — Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying (מַשְׁכִּ֔יל) womb and dry breasts.
• Malachi 3:11 — And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time (תְשַׁכֵּ֨ל) in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.