H7909 שַׁכּוּל (shakkûwl) shak-kool'

Hebrew

Adjective (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

childless

Strong's Definition

bereaved

Derivation: or שַׁכֻּל; from H7921 (שָׁכֹל);

KJV Usage: barren, bereaved (robbed) of children (whelps).

TWOT Reference: 2385b,c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) childless (through bereavement)

2) bereaved, robbed of offspring

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G639

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

שַׁכּוּל (shak.kul) — childless. 1) childless (through bereavement) 2) bereaved, robbed of offspring

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

שַׁכּוּל (H7909)

adj · שׁכל

Dead

bereaved of (one's) children, having lost (one's) young = process by which humans or animals lose their offspring through an untimely death

GEN 27:45 · GEN 31:38 · GEN 43:14 · GEN 43:14 · EXO 23:26 · 1SA 15:33 · 2SA 17:8 · JOB 21:10 · PRO 17:12 · SNG 4:2 · SNG 6:6 · JER 18:21 · HOS 13:8 · MAL 3:11

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

שַׁכּוּל adj. bereaved, robbed of offspring base

Bible Occurrences (5)

17:8

17:12

49:21

18:21

13:8

2 Samuel 17:8

[He] continued, You know your father and his men.... They [are] mighty men, and as fierce...... as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Moreover, your father [is] a man of war who will not spend the night with the troops.

Proverbs 17:12

[It is better] to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.

Isaiah 49:21

Then you will say in your heart, Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands... be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Hosea 13:8

Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests.... There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast tearing them apart.