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Strong's #7921: shakol (pronounced shaw-kole')

a primitive root; properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively):--bereave (of children), barren, cast calf (fruit, young), be (make) childless, deprive, destroy, X expect, lose children, miscarry, rob of children, spoil.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shâkôl

1) to be bereaved, make childless, miscarry

1a) (Qal) to be bereaved

1b) (Piel)

1b1) to make childless

1b2) to cause barrenness, show barrenness or abortion

1b3) to miscarry

1c) (Hiphil) miscarrying (participle)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 23 times:

Genesis 27:45: "and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one"
Genesis 31:38: "thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten."
Genesis 42:36: "their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not,"
Genesis 43:14: "and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
Genesis 43:14: "If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
Exodus 23:26: "There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days"
Leviticus 26:22: "wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle,"
Deuteronomy 32:25: "without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man"
1 Samuel 15:33: "As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women."
1 Samuel 15:33: "childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces"
2 Kings 2:19: "but the water is naught, and the ground barren."
2 Kings 2:21: "from thence any more death or barren"
Job 21:10: "not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf."
Jeremiah 15:7: "them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return"
Lamentations 1:20: "I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death."
Ezekiel 5:17: "you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring"
Ezekiel 14:15: "beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man"
Ezekiel 36:12: "and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave"
Ezekiel 36:13: "unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;"
Ezekiel 36:14: "no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord"
Hosea 9:12: "Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea,"
Hosea 9:14: "what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts."
Malachi 3:11: "of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts."









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