# שָׁכֹל (shakhol)

Israeli respelling: sha-khol. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7921. 22 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)

King James renderings: bereave (of children), barren, cast calf (fruit, young), be (make) childless, deprive, destroy, [idiom] expect, lose children, miscarry, rob of children, spoil.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shakhol-h7921

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 27:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/27/45) — 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…
- [Genesis 31:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/38) — 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.
- [Genesis 42:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/42/36) — 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…
- [Genesis 43:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/43/14) — 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…
- [Exodus 23:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/26) — There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
- [Leviticus 26:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/22) — 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…
- [Deuteronomy 32:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/25) — The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
- [1 Samuel 15:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/33) — And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces befo…
- [2 Kings 2:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/2/19) — 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 n…
- [2 Kings 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/2/21) — 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; the…
- [Job 21:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/10) — Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
- [Isaiah 49:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/21) — 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…
- [Jeremiah 15:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/15/7) — 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 f…
- [Lamentations 1:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/20) — 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 sw…
- [Ezekiel 5:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/5/17) — 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 b…
- [Ezekiel 14:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/14/15) — 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…
- [Ezekiel 36:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/12) — 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 s…
- [Ezekiel 36:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/13) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;
- [Ezekiel 36:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/14) — Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
- [Hosea 9:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/9/12) — 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…
- [Hosea 9:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/9/14) — Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
- [Malachi 3:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/3/11) — 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 b…