Strong's #7956: Shelah (pronounced shay-law')
the same as 7596 (shortened); request; Shelah, the name of a postdiluvian patriarch and of an Israelite:--Shelah.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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shêlâh
Shelah = "a petition"
1) the youngest son of Judah
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
Relation: the same as H7596 (shortened)
Usage:
This word is used 8 times:
Genesis 38:5: "and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore"
Genesis 38:11: "at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said,"
Genesis 38:14: "to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not"
Genesis 38:26: "that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again"
Genesis 46:12: "of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan"
Numbers 26:20: "of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family"
1 Chronicles 2:3: "of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter"
1 Chronicles 4:21: "The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah"