Category:Shiloh

Shi"loh (shi\'b6lo), n. Etym: [heb. shiloh, literally, quiet, rest, Fr. shalah to rest.] (script.)

Defn: a word used by jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted Variously, as "the messiah," or as the city "shiloh," or as "rest."

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Shiloh - (1.) Generally understood as denoting the Messiah, "the peaceful one," as the word signifies (Genesis 49:10). The Vulgate Category:Version translates the word, "he who is to be sent," in allusion to the Messiah; the Revised Category:Version, margin, "till he come to Shiloh;" and the LXX., "until that which is his shall come to Shiloh." It is most simple and natural to render the expression, as in the Authorized Category:Version, "till Shiloh come," interpreting it as a proper name (compare Isaiah 9:6). (2.) A place of rest, a city of Ephraim, "on the north side of Bethel," from which it is distant 10 miles (Judges 21:19); the modern Seilun (the Arabic for Shiloh), a "mass of shapeless ruins." Here the tabernacle was set up after the Conquest (Joshua 18:1), where it remained during all the period of the judges till the ark fell into the hands of the Philistines. "No spot in Central Palestine could be more secluded than this early sanctuary, nothing more featureless than the landscape around; so featureless, indeed, the landscape and so secluded the spot that from the time of St. Jerome till its re-discovery by Dr. Robinson in 1838 the very site was forgotten and unknown." It is referred to by Jeremiah (Jeremiah 7:12, Jeremiah 7:14; Jeremiah 26:4) five hundred years after its destruction.