שֶׁלֶ֫ג noun masculine[Isa 55:10] snow; — absolute ׳שׁ [Isa 1:18] +, שָׁ֑לֶג [Exod 4:6] +; construct שֶׁ֫לֶג [Jer 18:14] — snow, [2Sam 23:20] (׳יוֺם הַשּׁ) = [1Chr 11:22]; [Job 6:16]; [Job 37:6] (|| גֶּשֶׁם מָטָר) [Ps 147:16]; [Ps 148:8] ( + אֵשׁ, בָּרָד, קִיטוֺר); ׳מֵימֵי שׁ [Job 24:19], compare [Job 9:30] Qr (בְּמֵי, < Qr בְּמוֺ De Di Bu and others, snow as purifying; see also [מַי]; in poetry ׳אִצְרוֺת שׁ [Job 38:22] (|| בָּרָד ׳א); symbolic of cold [Prov 31:21] as moistening, fertilizing [Isa 55:10] (|| גֶּשֶׁם); on mountains, figurative of normal habit, לְבָנוֺן ׳שׁ [Jer 18:14] simile of whiteness, of leprosy [Exod 4:6] (J), [Num 12:10](E), [2Kgs 5:27] with מִן comp,, of fair skin [Lam 4:7] (|| חָלָב); simile of sins, יַלְבִּינוּ ׳כַּשּׁ [Isa 1:18], compare [Ps 51:9] (מִן compare); simile of refreshment [Prov 25:13] (drink cooled by snow, see references in DeToy), of the unfitting בַּקַיִץ ׳כַּשּׁ [Prov 26:1] (|| מָטָר). — On snow in Palestine see NicolHast. DB SNOW.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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