Strong’s H7999 · Hebrew
שָׁלַם
shâlam
shaw-lam'
Definition
to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications)
Etymology
a primitive root;
How the KJV renders it
- make amends
- (make an) end
- finish
- full
- give again
- make good
- (re-) pay (again)
- (make) (to) (be at) peace(-able)
- that is perfect
- perform
- (make) prosper(-ous)
- recompense
- render
- requite
- make restitution
- restore
- reward
- surely
Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.