SHELAH

'Shelah' or 'Shela' ('שֵׁלָה' "Petition", Standard Hebrew 'Šela', Tiberian Hebrew 'Šēlāh') is the name of two persons in the Bible:

★ The son of Arpachshad, and thus the grandson of Shem. In the Septuagint, however, Arpachshad's son was Cainan, making Shelah Arpachshad's grandson. Shelah was thirty years old when his first son, Eber, was born, and lived to be 433. (, , )

★ A son of Judah, whom he would not let be Tamar's husband. (Genesis 38:5,11,14,26; 46:10; Numbers 26:20; 1 Chronicles 2:3; 4:21) He became father of Er and Laadah and the ancestor of the Shelanites.