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class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Rhymes: <a href="/wiki/Rhymes:Hebrew/el" title="Rhymes:Hebrew/el"><span class="IPA">-el</span></a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_1">Etymology 1</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9C&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Etymology 1"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The possessed forms of <span class="Hebr" lang="he">של</span> were a common <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanite_languages" class="extiw" title="w:Canaanite languages">Canaanite</a> construction seen also, for example, in <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Punic language">Punic</a></span> <i class="Phnx mention" lang="xpu"><a href="/wiki/%F0%90%A4%94%F0%90%A4%8B%F0%90%A4%89#Punic" title="𐤔𐤋𐤉">𐤔𐤋𐤉</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="xpu-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">šly</span> <span class="ts mention-ts Latn">/⁠sillī⁠/</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">my</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> and <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_language" class="extiw" title="w:Phoenician language">Phoenician</a></span> <i class="Phnx mention" lang="phn"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%F0%90%A4%80%F0%90%A4%94_%F0%90%A4%8B%F0%90%A4%89&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="𐤀𐤔 𐤋𐤉 (page does not exist)">𐤀𐤔 𐤋𐤉</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="phn-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">ʾš ly</span> <span class="ts mention-ts Latn">/⁠ʔas lī⁠/</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">my</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>. These were derived from the relative pronoun <i class="Latn mention" lang="sem-pro"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/%CA%94as&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/ʔas (page does not exist)">*ʔas</a></i> or prefix <i class="Latn mention" lang="sem-pro"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/-%CA%94as&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/-ʔas (page does not exist)">*-ʔas</a></i> in combination with the dative prefix <i class="Latn mention" lang="sem-pro"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/-l&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/-l (page does not exist)">*-l</a></i>, hence the Hebrew is equivalent to <i class="Hebr mention" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%A9%D6%BE#Hebrew" title="ש־">ש־</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">she</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">which</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> +‎ <i class="Hebr mention" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%9C%D6%BE#Hebrew" title="ל־">ל־</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">l</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">to</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, thus “which [belongs] to”. </p><p>The first use of של as a possessive marker in Hebrew is attested in late parts of the Hebrew Bible, but then still preceded by, and in addition to, a possessive suffix (cf. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Songs" class="extiw" title="w:Song of Songs">Canticles</a> 1:6; 3:7). In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnaic_Hebrew_language" class="extiw" title="w:Mishnaic Hebrew language">Mishnaic Hebrew</a>, <i class="Hebr mention" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D6%BE#Hebrew" title="של־">של־</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">shel'-</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> becomes a true preposition by back-formation. The standalone spelling is a more recent innovation, but the pronoun-including forms are unchanged (which may be seen both in their gemination of the <span class="Hebr" lang="he">ל</span>, and in the unusual forms of the second- and third-person masculine and feminine plural pronominal suffixes, otherwise found only in the inflections of <i class="Hebr mention" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%9C%D6%BE#Hebrew" title="ל־">ל־</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">l'-</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> and <i class="Hebr mention" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%91%D6%BE#Hebrew" title="ב־">ב־</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">b'-</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Preposition">Preposition</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9C&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Preposition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Hebr headword" lang="he">שֶׁל</strong> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Hebrew_transliteration" class="mw-redirect" title="Wiktionary:Hebrew transliteration">•</a> (<span lang="he-Latn" class="headword-tr manual-tr tr Latn" dir="ltr">shel</span>)</span> </p> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/of" title="of">Of</a>, <a href="/wiki/belong" title="belong">belonging</a> to, <a href="/wiki/own" title="own">owned</a> by, <a href="/wiki/pertain" title="pertain">pertaining</a> to.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Usage_notes">Usage notes</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9C&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Usage notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Phrases headed by <span class="Hebr" lang="he">של</span> are mostly analogous to English attributive noun phrases and noun phrases plus the clitic <i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/-%27s#English" title="-'s">’s</a></i>. In particular, while <span class="Hebr" lang="he">של</span> often means “of”, phrases headed by <span class="Hebr" lang="he">של</span> can only modify noun phrases and similar syntactic entities; adverbial uses of English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/of#English" title="of">of</a></i> must be translated with a different preposition, usually <i class="Hebr mention" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%9E%D6%BE#Hebrew" title="מ־">מ־</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">mi-</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>.</li> <li>Words identical to pronoun-including forms of <span class="Hebr" lang="he">של</span> often result from the straightforward composition of <i class="Hebr mention" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%A9%D6%BE#Hebrew" title="ש־">ש־</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">she-</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">that, which</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> and <i class="Hebr mention" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%9C%D6%BE#Hebrew" title="ל־">ל־</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">l'-</span>, <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">to</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>.</li> <li>In formal or archaic Hebrew, attributive uses of <span class="Hebr" lang="he">של</span> are often replaced with noun compounds (in which one noun is in the construct state), and predicative uses are often replaced with simply <i class="Hebr mention" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%9C%D6%BE#Hebrew" title="ל־">ל־</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">l'-</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Inflection">Inflection</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9C&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Inflection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="NavFrame"> <div class="NavHead" align="left">Inflection table</div> <div class="NavContent" align="center"> <table style="margin:1em; margin-left: 0; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse;" class="inflection-table" cellpadding="4" rules="all"> <tbody><tr> <th style="background-color:#E2E4C0;white-space:nowrap;text-align:center;" colspan="4">Non-personal-pronoun-including form</th> <td><span class="Hebr" lang="he"><strong class="selflink">שֶׁל</strong></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="tr Latn">shel</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></td> </tr> <tr> <th style="background-color:#E2E4C0;white-space:nowrap;width:20%;" rowspan="2">Personal-pronoun-<br />including forms</th> <th style="background-color:#C0CFE4;text-align:center;" colspan="2">Singular</th> <th style="background-color:#C0CFE4;text-align:center;" colspan="2">Plural</th> </tr> <tr> <th style="background-color:#C0CFE4;width:20%;text-align:center;">Masculine</th> <th style="background-color:#C0CFE4;width:20%;text-align:center;">Feminine</th> <th style="background-color:#C0CFE4;width:20%;text-align:center;">Masculine</th> <th style="background-color:#C0CFE4;width:20%;text-align:center;">Feminine</th> </tr> <tr> <th style="background-color:#C0CFE4;white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;">First person</th> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"><span class="Hebr" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99#Hebrew" title="שלי">שֶׁלִּי</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="tr Latn">shelí</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"><span class="Hebr" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%95#Hebrew" title="שלנו">שֶׁלָּנוּ</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="tr Latn">shelánu</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></td> </tr> <tr> <th style="background-color:#C0CFE4;white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;">Second person</th> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="Hebr" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%9A#Hebrew" title="שלך">שֶׁלְּךָ</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="tr Latn">shel'khá</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="Hebr" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%9A#Hebrew" title="שלך">שֶׁלָּךְ</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="tr Latn">shelákh</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="Hebr" lang="he"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%9D&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="שלכם (page does not exist)">שֶׁלָּכֶם</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="tr Latn">shelakhém</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="Hebr" lang="he"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%9F&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="שלכן (page does not exist)">שֶׁלָּכֶן</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="tr Latn">shelakhén</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></td> </tr> <tr> <th style="background-color:#C0CFE4;white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;">Third person</th> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="Hebr" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%95#Hebrew" title="שלו">שֶׁלּוֹ</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="tr Latn">sheló</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="Hebr" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%94#Hebrew" title="שלה">שֶׁלָּהּ</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="tr Latn">sheláh</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="Hebr" lang="he"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%94%D7%9D&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="שלהם (page does not exist)">שֶׁלָּהֶם</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="tr Latn">shelahém</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></td> <td style="text-align:center;"><span class="Hebr" lang="he"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%94%D7%9F&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="שלהן (page does not exist)">שֶׁלָּהֶן</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="tr Latn">shelahén</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Derived_terms">Derived terms</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9C&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Hebr" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%92_%D7%A9%D7%9C#Hebrew" title="סוג של">סוּג שֶׁל</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="tr Latn">súg shel</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_2">Etymology 2</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9C&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Etymology 2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Verb">Verb</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9C&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Verb"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Hebr headword" lang="he">שַׁל</strong> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Hebrew_transliteration" class="mw-redirect" title="Wiktionary:Hebrew transliteration">•</a> (<span lang="he-Latn" class="headword-tr manual-tr tr Latn" dir="ltr">shal</span>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#gender" title="Appendix:Glossary">masculine</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#singular_number" title="Appendix:Glossary">singular</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#imperative_mood" title="Appendix:Glossary">imperative</a> of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Hebr mention" lang="he"><a href="/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%A9%D7%9C#Hebrew" title="נשל">נָשַׁל</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="he-Latn" class="mention-tr tr Latn">nashál</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></span></span> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><cite><span style="font-style:normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" class="extiw" title="w:Hebrew Bible">Tanach</a></span></cite>, <a href="/wiki/Exodus" title="Exodus">Exodus</a> <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/he:T0203#ג_ה" class="extiw" title="s:he:T0203">3:5</a>, with translation of the <a href="/wiki/King_James_Version" title="King James Version">King James Version</a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Hebr e-quotation cited-passage" lang="he"><b>שַׁל</b> נְעָלֶיךָ מֵעַל רַגְלֶיךָ</span><dl><dd><i lang="he-Latn" class="e-transliteration tr Latn"><i><b>shal</b> n'aléch meál raglécha</i></i></dd><dd><span class="e-translation"><b>put off</b> thy shoes from off thy feet</span></dd></dl></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="References">References</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9C&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> 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