Lexical Definition

‎שָׁלַף‎ shâlaph (saw-laf') to draw ^H:V
a primitive root

draw (off), grow up, pluck off.

• to pull out, up or off

1) to draw out or off, take off
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to draw out
1a2) to draw off
1a3) to shoot up, draw out (of blade of grass on roof)

See Greek: ἑλκύω · σπάω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Also see: חָלַף

‎שָׁלַף‎ verb draw out, off (Late Hebrew id., loosen, draw (nail, sword; Jastr); Assyrian šalâpu, pluck out, draw sword; Aramaic ‎לְֵַף‎ draw sword, draw off shoe, draw sword, in Lexicons remove corselet; Arabic is pass, pass away, strip, plunder, etc.); —

Qal Perfect 3 masculine singular ‎׳‎‎שׁ‎ Judg 3:22 +; Imperfect 3 masculine singular ‎וַיִּשְׁלֹף‎ Ruth 4:8, etc.; Imperative masculine singular ‎שְׁלֹף‎ Judg 9:54 +; Participle active ‎שֹׁלֵף‎ Judg 8:10 +, etc.; passive feminine ‎שׁלוּפָה‎ Num 22:23 +; —

1. draw out sword from (‎מִן‎) wound Judg 3:22, compare Job 20:25 usually sword from sheath Judg 8:20; Judg 9:54; 1Sam 31:4 = 1Chr 10:4, + ‎מִתַּעְרָהּ‎ 1Sam 17:51 ‎וְחַרְבּוֺ שָׁלוּפָה בְּיָדוֺ‎ Num 22:23; Num 22:31; Josh 5:13 (all J), 1Chr 21:16 elsewhere ‎׳‎‎אִישׁ שֹׁלֵף ח‎ collective Judg 8:10; Judg 20:2; Judg 20:15; Judg 20:17; Judg 20:46; 2Sam 24:9; 2Kgs 3:26; 1Chr 21:5 (twice in verse), compare Judg 20:35 and (‎׳‎‎שְׁלֹפֵי ח‎) vJudg 20:25.

2. draw off sandal Ruth 4:7; Ruth 4:8 (compare I. ‎חלץ‎ 1; also RS^{K 269} Dr^{Deut 25:9} Bewer^{SK lxxvi (1903), 332}).

3. shoot up (?), i.e. draw out blade, of grass on roof Ps 129:6 (compare Ew Bae and others); Che Dr is unsheathed (verb with subject indefinite = passive), with same meaning; Hup-Now proposes ‎שָׁלֵם‎ (with || in Syriac); see Ortenberg^{Textkrit1 K d. Ps. (1861), 30} ‎שֶׁחָלָף‎, We^Hpt Du ‎חֲלֹף‎ (as Ps 90:5; Ps 90:6, see ‎׳‎‎ח‎ 2).

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