1. shield, buckler (defensive armament) — A shield or buckler, a piece of defensive military equipment. The Hebrew shelet refers to a type of shield, with some English translations distinguishing 'shields' from 'bucklers' but the underlying Hebrew noun is the same word throughout. Spanish escudos/paveses ('shields/bucklers'), Arabic al-atras/al-majann/turuwsahum/shilTi ('shields' in various forms), Hindi Dhaalen/parichen ('shields'), Korean bangpaedeul ('shields'), Swahili ngao/vigao ('shields'). All clusters are grammatical variants (construct, absolute, with article, with suffix) of a single noun denoting defensive armor. 7×
AR["أَتراسَ","أَتْرَاسَ","الأَتْرَاسَ","الْمَجَانَّ","تُرُوسَهُمْ","شِلْطِي","ٱلْأَتْرَاسَ"]·ben["-প্রতিরক্ষাগুলো","-ফলক","ঢাল","ঢালগুলি","তাদের-ঢালগুলি","যোরাম"]·DE["[השלטים]","[שלטי]","[שלטיהם]","der-shields","shields-von"]·EN["bucklers-of","shields-of","the-bucklers","the-shields","their-shields"]·FR["[השלטים]","[שלטי]","bouclier","le-shields","les-armures","shields-de"]·heb["ה-שלטים","שלטי","שלטיהם"]·HI["ढालें","ढालें-अपनी","परिचें","फरियोंको","हश्शलातीम"]·ID["-perisai-perisai","perisai-perisai","perisai-perisai-mereka"]·IT["[השלטים]","[שלטי]","[שלטיהם]","bucklers-of","il-scudi","scudi-di"]·jav["para-tameng-ageng","tameng-tameng","tameng-tameng-piyambakipun-sedaya","tamèng","tamèng-tamèng"]·KO["그-큰-방패들을","방패들","방패들을","방패들을-그들의","작은-방패들-이라"]·PT["escudos-de","os-escudos","os-escudos-de","os-escudos-pequenos","seus-escudos"]·RU["колчаны","малые-щиты","оружия","щиты","щиты-свои"]·ES["escudos-de","los-escudos","los-escudos-pequeños","los-paveses-de","sus-escudos"]·SW["ngao","ngao-za","ngao-zao","vigao","za-mashujaa"]·TR["kalkanlar-o","kalkanlari","kalkanları","kalkanlarını","küçük-kalkanları"]·urd["-ڈھالیں","سپریں","ڈھالیں","ڈھالیں-اپنی","ڈھلیں"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [שֶׁ֫לֶט] n.m. 2 S 8:7 shield(?);—pl. שְׁלָטִים 2 K 11:10 +, cstr. שִׁלְטֵי 2 S 8:7 +; sf. שִׁלְטֵיהֶם Ez 27:11;—shields (so AV RV Thes; al. quivers, or [v. especially BarnesExpos. T. x. 43 f. (cf. 188)] arms, equipment; Vrss vary; Assyrian šalṭu (v. √) seems to be a specif. article), 2 S 8:7 = 1 Ch 18:7; 2 K 11:10 = 2 Ch 23:9 (where + מָגִנּוֹת, but) Ct 4:4 appos. of מָגֵן (q.v. sub גנן), hung…