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View synonyms for shalom

shalom

[ shah-lawm; English shuh-lohm ]

interjection

, Hebrew.
  1. peace (used as a word of greeting or farewell).


shalom

  1. A Hebrew word used to mean both “hello” and “good-bye”; literally, it means “peace.”


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The shooter then moved on to the Village Shalom retirement community, where a woman was killed on the scene.

Reason: Israel's closure of the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing following shooting of rockets.

The tanks were seen about 150 meters over the border line close to the Kerem Shalom crossing.

When I said, “Shalom, Officer” he seemed less than impressed.

Yesterday, Rabbi Menachem Chai Shalom Froman left this world.

Sar Shalom, head of the Jewish congregation of Ispahan, 434.

If we did not wish to join in the dancing, but wanted to leave, they would just say 'Shalom'—'go in peace but come again.'

For this they had to employ Shalom Cohen, a turn-coat, who had formerly belonged to the ranks of the reformers.

"Shalom Aleichem," he began, his tongue faltering a little over the old Hebrew greeting he had not used for so long.

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Shalmaneser IIIshalom aleichem