Shelah

Mentioned 1751–1451 BC traditional (Jones)

Judah’s third son (Gen. 38:2, 5, 11, 14).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father: Judah
Mother: Daughter of Shuah
Children: Er, Joash, Jokim, Laadah, Saraph
Siblings: Er, Onan
Half-siblings: Zerah, Pharez
Born at: Chezib
Tagged in: 8 verses

The 25th generation from Adam, counting Adam as the first.
Mentioned in the era of Egypt and the Exodus, 1706–1451 BC.
Named in the same verses as Judah, Er, Onan, Pharez, Zerah, Canaan, Daughter of Shuah, and Er.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Shelah, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

possible location: Beth-ashbea1
location not graded: Canaan1
likely location: Chezib1
possible location: Enaim1
likely location: Timnah1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1826–1376 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

8 tagged verses in 3 books. Select a book to read its verses.

Genesis5
Numbers1
1 Chronicles2

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Shelah 20
KJV	Shelah 11
ASV	Shelah 19

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 8 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Genesis5 verses

38:5
Then she gave birth to another son and named him Shelah; it was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.
38:11
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
38:14
she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.
38:26
Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.
46:12
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.

Numbers1 verse

26:20
These were the descendants of Judah by their clans: The Shelanite clan from Shelah, the Perezite clan from Perez, and the Zerahite clan from Zerah.

1 Chronicles2 verses

2:3
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death.
4:21
The sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah and the clans of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea,

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.