60%RatingSave Gender Masculine Usage Biblical Hebrew Scripts שֵׁלָח(Ancient Hebrew) Meaning & History Means "dart, plant shoot, sprout" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament this is the name of a grandson of Shem who is an ancestor of Abraham. In English bibles it is written as Salah or Shelah. Related NamesFamily Tree·Details Other Languages & CulturesShelah, Salah(Biblical)