Shelah or Shela (שֵׁלָה "Petition", Standard HebrewŠela, Tiberian HebrewŠēlāh) is the name of two persons in the Bible: The Modern Hebrew language is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. ... Tiberian Hebrew is an oral tradition of pronunciation for ancient forms of Hebrew, especially the Hebrew of the Bible, that was given written form by masoretic scholars in the Jewish community at Tiberias in the early middle ages, beginning in the 8th century. ... This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library. ...
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. (Genesis 10:24, Genesis 11:12-15, I Chronicles 1:18, 24)
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.