Shelah may refer to: *

Shelah (son of Judah) According to the Bible, Shelah/Shela () was the third son of Judah, and was born at Chezib, which can be identified with an unknown town in the vicinity of Mareshah. Biblical narrative According to the book of Genesis, God had killed Shelah's t ...

, a son of Judah according to the Bible *

Shelah (name) Shelah is a Latin transcription of several separate Hebrew names. In Biblical Hebrew, it may represent שֵׁלָה ("Shelah" or "Shela") or שֶׁלַח ("Salah", "Shelah" or "Shela"). A later Hebrew name that has been rendered as "Shela" is ...

, a Hebrew personal name *

Shlach ''Shlach, Shelach, Sh'lah, Shlach Lecha'', or ''Sh'lah L'kha'' ( or —Hebrew language, Hebrew for "send", "send to you", or "send for yourself") is the 37th weekly Torah portion (, ''parashah'') in the annual Judaism, Jewish cycle of Torah readin ...

, the 37th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading *

Salih Saleh or Salih () is a prophet mentioned in the Qur'an who prophesied to the tribe of Thamud in ancient Arabia, before the lifetime of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The story of Salih is linked to the story of the She-Camel of God, which was t ...

, a prophet described in the Qur'an whom some scholars believe to be the Islamic counterpart of Shelah son of Judah *

Salah ''Salah'' (, also spelled ''salat'') is the practice of formal worship in Islam, consisting of a series of ritual prayers performed at prescribed times daily. These prayers, which consist of units known as ''rak'ah'', include a specific s ...

, sometimes referred to by the name "Shelah", a minor Biblical figure (son of Arpachshad, father of Eber) *

Pool of Siloam The term Pool of Siloam (, ) refers to several rock-cut pools located southeast of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. The pools were fed by the waters of the Gihon Spring, carried there by the Siloam tunnel. The Lower Pool or "Old Pool" ...

, also referred to as the "pool of Shelah", a site of Biblical significance in Jerusalem * ''Shenei Luhot HaBerit'', Hebrew initialed "Shelah", 16th-century Rabbi

Isaiah Horowitz Isaiah or Yeshayahu ben Avraham Ha-Levi Horowitz () (c. 1555 – March 24, 1630), also known as the ''Shelah HaKaddosh'' ( "the holy ''Shelah''") after the title of his best-known work, was a prominent rabbi and mystic. Biography Isaiah Horo ...

most influential work *

Ofer Shelah Ofer Shelah (; born 9 February 1960) is an Israeli journalist and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid from 2013 until 2020. Early life and military service Shelah was born in Kiryat Bialik. He enlisted in the Israel ...

(born 1960), Israeli politician *

Saharon Shelah Saharon Shelah (; , ; born July 3, 1945) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University in New Jersey. Biography Shelah was born in Jerusalem on July 3, 1945. He is th ...

(born 1945), a contemporary mathematician working in set theory and logic * Original name of

Shadmot Mehola Shadmot Mehola () is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, organized as a national-religious moshav shitufi.Shadmot M ...

, a West Bank Israeli settlement

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