Bible word study

Shalom (Strong’s H7965): Meaning in the Bible

Shalom (שָׁלוֹם) is the Hebrew word numbered H7965 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace. In the King James Bible it is translated familiar, favour, friend, (good) health, such as be at) peace(-able.

• Original wordשָׁלוֹם
• Transliterationshâlôwm
• Pronunciationshaw-lome'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH7965
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or שָׁלֹם; from H7999;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Shalom appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Shalom (H7965) stands behind 229 English renderings in 201 verses across 31 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Isaiah (29), Jeremiah (29), Psalms (27).

How the King James Bible renders Shalom, by count

• peace175 of 229 (76 percent)
• well14 of 229 (6 percent)
• peaceably9 of 229 (4 percent)
• welfare5 of 229 (2 percent)
• prosperity4 of 229 (2 percent)
• did3 of 229 (1 percent)

Three places to read Shalom

• Genesis 15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
• 1 Kings 22:27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
• Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

And Christ

Shalom is the world as it was meant to be, whole and unbroken. Isaiah calls the coming child the Prince of Peace, and Christians believe Jesus makes shalom by bearing what is broken in us.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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