שָׁלַף

Numbers 22:23 שְׁלוּפָה֙ [was] drawn

When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the path and went into a field. So Balaam beat her to return her to the path.

Numbers 22:31 שְׁלֻפָ֖ה [was] drawn

Then the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand. And Balaam bowed low and fell facedown.

Joshua 5:13 שְׁלוּפָ֖ה [was] drawn

Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, “Are You for us or for our enemies?”

Here: A passive participle: the sword is already out of its sheath and ready to use. This is not a man passing by with a weapon at his belt. He is ready to fight.

Judges 3:22 שָׁלַ֛ף he drew out

Even the handle sank in after the blade, and Eglon’s fat closed in over it, so that Ehud did not withdraw the sword from his belly. And Eglon’s bowels emptied.

Judges 8:10 שֹׁ֥לֵֽף [who] drew

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army of about fifteen thousand men—all that were left of the armies of the people of the east. A hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had already fallen.

Judges 8:20 שָׁלַ֨ף he drew

So he said to Jether, his firstborn, “Get up and kill them.” But the young man did not draw his sword; he was fearful because he was still a youth.

Judges 9:54 שְׁלֹ֤ף draw

He quickly called his armor-bearer, saying, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So Abimelech’s armor-bearer ran his sword through him, and he died.

Judges 20:2 שֹׁ֥לֵֽף [who] drew

The leaders of all the people and all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of God’s people: 400,000 men on foot, armed with swords.

Judges 20:15 שֹׁ֣לֵֽף [who] drew

On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.

Judges 20:17 שֹׁ֣לֵֽף [who] drew

The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mobilized 400,000 swordsmen, each one an experienced warrior.

Judges 20:25 שֹׁ֥לְפֵי [were] drawers of

That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.

Judges 20:35 שֹׁ֥לֵף [was] drawing

The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.

Judges 20:46 שֹׁ֥לֵֽף [who] drew

That day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.

Ruth 4:7 שָׁלַ֥ף he took off

Now in former times in Israel, concerning the redemption or exchange of property, to make any matter legally binding a man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party, and this was a confirmation in Israel.

Here: Usually used for drawing a sword from its sheath. Here it means pulling off a sandal. The verb form describes what people regularly used to do: 'a man would draw off'.

Ruth 4:8 וַיִּשְׁלֹ֖ף and he took off

So the kinsman-redeemer removed his sandal and said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.”

Here: The same verb is used for drawing a sword from its sheath. Here the man pulls the sandal off his foot, which is the act verse 7 has just explained as the old way of confirming a transfer. In the Hebrew order the words come first and the gesture follows to seal them.

1 Samuel 17:51 וַֽיִּשְׁלְפָ֤הּ and he drew out it

David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him, and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.

1 Samuel 31:4 שְׁלֹ֥ף draw out

Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

Here: A curt command: pull the sword from its sheath. Abimelech uses the same words to his own armor-bearer in Judges 9:54.

2 Samuel 24:9 שֹׁ֣לֵֽף [who] drew

And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.

2 Kings 3:26 שֹׁ֣לֵֽף [who] drew

When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not prevail.

1 Chronicles 10:4 שְׁלֹ֥ף draw out

Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

1 Chronicles 21:5 שֹׁ֣לֵֽף שֹׁ֥לֵֽף [who] drew out

And Joab reported to David the total number of the troops. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, including 470,000 in Judah.

1 Chronicles 21:16 שְׁלוּפָה֙ drawn

When David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.

Here: Pulled out of its sheath, ready to strike. The same wording as the armed messenger who met Balaam (Num 22:23) and Joshua (Josh 5:13).

Job 20:25 שָׁלַף֮ he will draw [it] out

It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.

Psalm 129:6 שָׁלַ֣ף it has shot up

May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,