Definition

safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace

Etymology

or שָׁלֹם; from H7999 (שָׁלַם);

Where the KJV renders it

• do
• familiar
• fare
• favour
• friend
• great
• (good) health
• ( perfect
• such as be at) peace(-able
• -ably)
• prosper(-ity
• -ous)
• rest
• safe(-ty)
• salute
• welfare
• ( all is
• be) well
• wholly

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.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.