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שִׁלְיָה

shil.yah

afterbirth

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Strong’s H7988Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

afterbirth1

In the text

Deuteronomy 28:57וּבְשִׁלְיָתָהּ
the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[שִׁלְיָה] n.f. after-birth;—sf. Dt 28:57.

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.