WHOLE, complete, sound — the adjective of shalom, and the root of shelamim, the peace offerings. ⭐ At Deuteronomy 25:15 it is the honest weight, even shelemah, a full and honest stone; at 27:6, two chapters later, it is the altar, avanim shelemot, whole stones that no iron has touched — a phrase in two verses of the Hebrew Bible, that one and Joshua 8:31 (not yet on these pages), where the altar is built. The singular even shelemah stands in three verses: the weight, Proverbs 11:1’s a whole stone is his delight, and 1 Kings 6:7’s temple, built of whole stone from the quarry with no iron tool heard in the house (neither yet on these pages). ⚠ Elsewhere the word is a state rather than a shape: Hamor tells Shechem the sons of Jacob are at peace with us, shelemim (Genesis 34:21), and God tells Abram that the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete, lo shalem (Genesis 15:16, both already on these pages) — a whole heart, a whole measure of guilt, a whole stone. The shelf reads the stones as ‘whole’ (KJV, Geneva, NWT 1984), ‘unhewn’ (ASV), ‘fieldstones’ (NIV); the RV60 and TNM 1987 read «piedras enteras», and this translation’s Spanish keeps the weight’s own adjective, «cabales». → first discussed at Deut 27:6