Shakol means “miscarry” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7921 שָׁכוֹל (shakol) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shakol (shaw-kole') v. 1. (properly) to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion 2. by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively) It has 21 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include bereave, barren, children, will, and have. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
shakol (shaw-kole') v. 1. (properly) to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion 2. by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root] KJV: bereave (of children), barren, cast calf (fruit, young), be (make) childless, deprive, destroy, X expect, lose children, miscarry, rob of children, spoil.
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be bereaved
Usage: 1) to be bereaved, make childless, miscarry 1a) (Qal) to be bereaved 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to make childless 1b2) to cause barrenness, show barrenness or abortion 1b3) to miscarry 1c) (Hiphil) miscarrying (participle)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shakol, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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21 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7921.
Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.
And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since they return not from their ways.
Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations:
Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7921, grouped by book.
Shakol (Strong's H7921) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "miscarry". shakol (shaw-kole') v. 1. (properly) to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion 2. by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's H7921 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7921 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bereave, barren, children, will, have, and are. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.