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שְׁאֵלָא

she.e.la

affair

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Strong’s H7595Noun, feminine1 time in the Aramaic of the Hebrew Bible

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Translated as

affair1

In the text

Daniel 4:17שְׁאֵלְתָא
This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the lowliest of men.’

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[שְׁאֵלָא] n.f. affair;—emph. Dn 4:14.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.