Strong's #7596: sh'elah (pronounced sheh-ay-law')

or shelah (1 Samuel 1:17) {shay-law'}; from 7592; a petition; by implication, a loan:--loan, petition, request.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ / ׁ

she'êlâh / shêlâh

1) request, thing asked for, demand

1a) request, petition

1b) thing asked for

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H7592

Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

 

Judges 8:24: "said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings"
1 Samuel 1:17: "of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of"
1 Samuel 1:27: "and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of"
1 Samuel 2:20: "this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went"
1 Kings 2:16: "I ask one petition of thee, deny"
1 Kings 2:20: "desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay."
Esther 5:6: "at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to"
Esther 5:7: "Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request"
Esther 5:8: "it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request,"
Esther 7:2: "at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what"
Esther 7:3: "it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:"
Esther 9:12: "of the king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further?"
Job 6:8: "Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!"
Psalms 106:15: "And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul."