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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Shiloah, Siloam
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Sabtah Sabteca Salem Salu (Sallu) Samson Samuel Sarah, Sarai satan Saul Seba Seir Sephar Serug Seth Shaddai Sharon Sheba Shechem Shelah Sheleph Shem Shiloah, Siloam Shiloh Shimea Shimei Shinar Shisha Shoshannah Shuah Siddim Sidon Simeon Sin Sinite/ Sinim Sinai Sisera Sitnah Sodom Solomon Succoth Susa Susan/Susannah |
Shiloah
The name Siloam is the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew name Shiloah, the name of a pool outside Jerusalem mentioned by Isaiah (8:1) and by Nehemiah as Shelah (3:15). The Evangelist John, who interprets this name for us which indicates that the meaning is significant, has Jesus sent a blind man to wash in the Pool of Siloam to be healed (9:7). Luke makes mention of a tower that fell on people at Siloam at killed them. |
, Siloam 
(shala 2394) meaning send, send out, let go. The charge of the verb becomes clear in the meaning of the derivatives: 
(shilluhim 2394b), sending away; 
(sheluha 2394c), shoot, branch (Isia 16:8); 
(mislah 2394d); undertaking (that to which one stretches out the hand), or pasture (where animals get to roam free); 
(mishloah 2394e), outstretching, sending; 
(mishlahat 2394f), discharge, deputation.
