1) childless (through bereavement) 2) bereaved, robbed of offspring
STRONG'S WORD STUDY
H7909 — שַׁכּוּל
shak.kul · childless · Hebrew/Aramaic
7 tagged verse occurrences
2 Samuel 17:8 · שַׁכּ֖וּלHushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.Proverbs 17:12 · שַׁכּ֣וּלLet a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.Song of Solomon 4:2 · וְשַׁכֻּלָ֖הYour teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.Song of Solomon 6:6 · וְשַׁכֻּלָ֖הYour teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing; of which every one has twins; none is bereaved among them.Isaiah 49:21 · שְׁכוּלָ֖הThen you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?’”Jeremiah 18:21 · שַׁכֻּלוֹת֙Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men struck of the sword in battle.Hosea 13:8 · שַׁכּ֔וּלI will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.