Show Notes
שׁ-ל-ה (šin–lamed–he) / س–ل–و (sīn–lām–wāw)
Quietness; be quiet; at ease
In the Hebrew Bible: šalwah, quietness · šalew, quiet · šalah, be quiet · šeli, quietness
In the Qurʾan: salwā, and the quails
Sound-law correspondence and an explicit cognate link. ḥurūf al-ṣafīr, at the fāʾ: sīn answering šin; nāqiṣ, at the lām: weak final as he.
Passages
- Proverbs 1:32: For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
- Job 21:23: One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
- 2 Kings 4:28: Then she said, “Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn’t I say, Do not deceive me?”
- John 1:47: Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
- Romans 12:18: If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
- Matthew 26:4: They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
- Sūrat Ṭā Hā سورة طه “Ta-Ha” 20:80: O Children of Israel! We delivered you from your enemy, and we made a covenant with you on the holy mountain's side, and sent down on you the manna and the quails,
- Sūrat al-Baqara سورة البقرة “The Cow” 2:57: And We caused the white cloud to overshadow you and sent down on you the manna and the quails, (saying): Eat of the good things wherewith We have provided you - they wronged Us not, but they did wrong themselves.
- Sūrat al-ʾAʿrāf سورة الأعراف “The Heights” 7:160: We divided them into twelve tribes, nations; and We inspired Moses, when his people asked him for water, saying: Smite with thy staff the rock! And there gushed forth therefrom twelve springs, so that each tribe knew their drinking-place. And we caused the white cloud to overshadow them and sent down for them the manna and the quails (saying): Eat of the good things wherewith we have provided you. They wronged Us not, but they were wont to wrong themselves.
Opening music: Touchia Ḥijāz, Thami Ben Abdelkrim, violin, with percussion (Morocco, 1920s), public domain. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF, Archives de la Parole.
The digital voice Fāṭima (فَاطِمَة) is named in honor of the learned women of al-Andalus, particularly Fāṭima bint Yaḥyā al-Maghāmī, Fāṭima al-Sharrāṭ, and Fāṭima bint al-Muthannā, whose legacies embody the Andalusian traditions of scriptural scholarship, jurisprudence, education, and wisdom.
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Every day, one Semitic triliteral root heard in three scriptures: the root in Hebrew and Arabic, how it functions, and a passage from the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Qurʾan, read in the original languages with the English. Two or three minutes a day, from OCABS on the Ephesus School Network.