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The noun shalom means safe, for example, well and happy.
On a more abstract application, its use points to welfare, for example, health, prosperity, and, peace.
It is the verb form shalam, though, that provides a deeper understanding of this term in theology, doctrine, and liturgy.
Literally translated, shalam signals to a state of safety, but figuratively it points to completeness.
In its use in Scripture, shalom describes the actions that lead to a state of soundness, or better yet wholeness.
So to say, shalom seems not to merely speak of a state of affairs, but describes a process, an activity, a movement towards fullness.
Using the King James Version as reference, James Strong lists the rendering of shalom and shalam, among others, as:

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