Strong's Definition
properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: bereave (of children), barren, cast calf (fruit, young), be (make) childless, deprive, destroy, [idiom] expect, lose children, miscarry, rob of children, spoil.
TWOT Reference: 2385
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
שָׁכֹל (sha.khol) — be bereaved. 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)
שָׁכוּל (sha.khul) — childless. adj childless (through bereavement) Also means: shak.kul (שַׁכּוּל "childless" H7909)
מְשַׁכֶּ֫לֶת (me.sha.ke.let) — barenness. barrenness
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
adj · שׁכל
Dead
bereaved of children = state in which humans have lost their offspring through an untimely death
verb · אֶשְׁכֹּל · שְׁכֹול · שָׁכוּל · שַׁכּוּל · שִׁכֻּלִים
Dead | verb qal, verb pi
to be bereaved of children, to miscarry, to lose (one's) young = process by which humans or animals lose their offspring through an untimely death, either before or after they are born
GEN 27:45 · GEN 31:38 · GEN 43:14 · GEN 43:14 · EXO 23:26 · 1SA 15:33 · JOB 21:10 · MAL 3:11
Dead | verb pi, verb hif
to bereave of children, to cause miscarriage, to cause to lose (one's) young = causative process by which humans or animals lose their offspring through an untimely death, either before or after they are born
GEN 42:36 · LEV 26:22 · DEU 32:25 · 1SA 15:33 · 2KI 2:19 · 2KI 2:21 · JER 15:7 · LAM 1:20 · EZK 5:17 · EZK 14:15 · EZK 36:12 · EZK 36:13 · EZK 36:14 · HOS 9:12 · HOS 9:14
1 EZK 36:14 MT-K תכשׁלי | MT-Q תְשַׁכְּלִי
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[שָׁכֹל, שָׁכַל] vb. be bereaved Qal be bereaved
Pi. make childless
cause barrenness, or abortion
shew barrenness, or abortion
Hiph. miscarrying womb
base
[שָׁכוּל] adj. childless (through bereavement);—fs. Is 49:21 ref
מְשַׁכֶּ֫לֶת n.f.abstr. barrenness, 2 K 2:21 ref