שָׁלַח
to send
also: send away, let go, stretch out fuller range ↓
H7971
Strong's Hebrew
shâlach
Transliteration
/shaw-lakh'/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
847
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
BDB Definition
to send, send away, let go, stretch out
- (Qal)
- to send
- to stretch out, extend, direct
- to send away
- to let loose
- (Niphal) to be sent
- (Piel)
- to send off or away or out or forth, dismiss, give over, cast out
- to let go, set free
- to shoot forth (of branches)
- to let down
- to shoot
- (Pual) to be sent off, be put away, be divorced, be impelled
- (Hiphil) to send
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
- Preposition
- A relational word (e.g. “in,” “to,” “from”) governing a noun.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘send’
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem. Here: ‘send off’
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
- Pual
- The passive counterpart of the Piel.
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms 87 distinct
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 198 times (23%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 110 times (13%)
- Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 38 times (4%)
- Verb, Piel, Infinitive Construct 32 times (4%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 25 times (3%)
- Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 23 times (3%)
- Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct 22 times (3%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 22 times (3%)
+79 more forms (377 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 847 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
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Genesis 64 verses
- Genesis 3:22 יִשְׁלַ֣ח Qal impf 3ms Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
- Genesis 3:23 וַֽ/יְשַׁלְּחֵ֛/הוּ conj + Piel wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
- Genesis 8:7 וַ/יְשַׁלַּ֖ח conj + Piel wimpf 3ms and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
- Genesis 8:8 וַ/יְשַׁלַּ֥ח conj + Piel wimpf 3ms He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the surface of the ground,
- Genesis 8:9 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֤ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.
- Genesis 8:10 שַׁלַּ֥ח Piel inf.cs He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
- Genesis 8:12 וַ/יְשַׁלַּח֙ conj + Piel wimpf 3ms He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.
- Genesis 12:20 וַֽ/יְשַׁלְּח֥וּ conj + Piel wimpf 3mp Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.
- Genesis 18:16 לְ/שַׁלְּחָֽ/ם prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
- Genesis 19:10 וַ/יִּשְׁלְח֤וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
- Genesis 19:13 וַ/יְשַׁלְּחֵ֥/נוּ conj + Piel wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 1cp for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is grown great before Yahweh. Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."
- Genesis 19:29 וַ/יְשַׁלַּ֤ח conj + Piel wimpf 3ms It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
- Genesis 20:2 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֗ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
- Genesis 21:14 וַֽ/יְשַׁלְּחֶ֑/הָ conj + Piel wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3fs Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
- Genesis 22:10 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֤ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
- Genesis 22:12 תִּשְׁלַ֤ח Qal juss 2ms He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
- Genesis 24:7 יִשְׁלַ֤ח Qal impf 3ms Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
- Genesis 24:40 יִשְׁלַ֨ח Qal impf 3ms He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.
- Genesis 24:54 שַׁלְּחֻ֥/נִי Piel impv 2mp + sfx pers 1cs They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, "Send me away to my master."
- Genesis 24:56 שַׁלְּח֕וּ/נִי Piel impv 2mp + sfx pers 1cs He said to them, "Don't hinder me, seeing Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."
- Genesis 24:59 וַֽ/יְשַׁלְּח֛וּ conj + Piel wimpf 3mp They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham's servant, and his men.
- Genesis 25:6 וַֽ/יְשַׁלְּחֵ֞/ם conj + Piel wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp but to the sons of the concubines who Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
- Genesis 26:27 וַ/תְּשַׁלְּח֖וּ/נִי conj + Piel wimpf 2mp + sfx pers 1cs Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
- Genesis 26:29 וַ/נְּשַׁלֵּֽחֲ/ךָ֖ conj + Piel wimpf 1cp + sfx pers 2ms that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."
- Genesis 26:31 וַ/יְשַׁלְּחֵ֣/ם conj + Piel wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
- Genesis 27:42 וַ/תִּשְׁלַ֞ח conj + Qal wimpf 3fs The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
- Genesis 27:45 וְ/שָׁלַחְתִּ֖י conj + Qal wpf 1cs until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"
- Genesis 28:5 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֤ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
- Genesis 28:6 וְ/שִׁלַּ֤ח conj + Piel pf 3ms Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"
- Genesis 30:25 שַׁלְּחֵ֨/נִי֙ Piel impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
- Genesis 31:4 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֣ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
- Genesis 31:27 וָֽ/אֲשַׁלֵּחֲ/ךָ֛ conj + Piel impf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
- Genesis 31:42 שִׁלַּחְתָּ֑/נִי Piel pf 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
- Genesis 32:3 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֨ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
- Genesis 32:5 וָֽ/אֶשְׁלְחָ/ה֙ conj + Qal wimpf 1cs + sfx h I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, men-servants, and maid-servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"
- Genesis 32:18 שְׁלוּחָ֔ה Qal ptcp.pass fs Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'"
- Genesis 32:26 שַׁלְּחֵ֔/נִי אֲשַֽׁלֵּחֲ/ךָ֔ Piel impv 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Piel impf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
- Genesis 37:13 וְ/אֶשְׁלָחֲ/ךָ֣ conj + Qal impf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am."
- Genesis 37:14 וַ/יִּשְׁלָחֵ֨/הוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
- Genesis 37:22 תִּשְׁלְחוּ Qal juss 2mp Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"-- that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
- Genesis 37:32 וַֽ/יְשַׁלְּח֞וּ conj + Piel wimpf 3mp They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."
- Genesis 38:17 אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח שָׁלְחֶֽ/ךָ Piel impf 1cs Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2ms He said, "I will send you a kid of the goats from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"
- Genesis 38:20 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֨ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her.
- Genesis 38:23 שָׁלַ֨חְתִּי֙ Qal pf 1cs Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this kid, and you haven't found her."
- Genesis 38:25 שָׁלְחָ֤ה Qal pf 3fs When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." She also said, "Please discern whose are these-- the signet, and the cords, and the staff."
- Genesis 41:8 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֗ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men of it. Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
- Genesis 41:14 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֤ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.
- Genesis 42:4 שָׁלַ֥ח Qal pf 3ms But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."
- Genesis 42:16 שִׁלְח֨וּ Qal impv 2mp Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."
- Genesis 43:4 מְשַׁלֵּ֥חַ Piel ptcp.act ms If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food,
- Genesis 43:5 מְשַׁלֵּ֖חַ Piel ptcp.act ms but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"
- Genesis 43:8 שִׁלְחָ֥/ה Qal impv 2ms + sfx h Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.
- Genesis 43:14 וְ/שִׁלַּ֥ח conj + Piel wpf 3ms May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
- Genesis 44:3 שֻׁלְּח֔וּ Pual pf 3cp As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
- Genesis 45:5 שְׁלָחַ֥/נִי Qal pf 3ms + sfx pers 1cs Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
- Genesis 45:7 וַ/יִּשְׁלָחֵ֤/נִי conj + Qal wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 1cs God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
- Genesis 45:8 שְׁלַחְתֶּ֤ם Qal pf 2mp So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 45:23 שָׁלַ֤ח Qal pf 3ms To his father, he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
- Genesis 45:24 וַ/יְשַׁלַּ֥ח conj + Piel wimpf 3ms So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, "See that you don't quarrel on the way."
- Genesis 45:27 שָׁלַ֥ח Qal pf 3ms They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.
- Genesis 46:5 שָׁלַ֥ח Qal pf 3ms Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
- Genesis 46:28 שָׁלַ֤ח Qal pf 3ms He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
- Genesis 48:14 וַ/יִּשְׁלַח֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
- Genesis 49:21 שְׁלֻחָ֑ה Qal ptcp.pass fs "Naphtali is a doe set free, Who bears beautiful fawns.
Exodus 65 verses
- Exodus 2:5 וַ/תִּשְׁלַ֥ח conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.
- Exodus 3:10 וְ/אֶֽשְׁלָחֲ/ךָ֖ conj + Qal impf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."
- Exodus 3:12 שְׁלַחְתִּ֑י/ךָ Qal pf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."
- Exodus 3:13 שְׁלָחַ֣/נִי Qal pf 3ms + sfx pers 1cs Moses said to God, "Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you;' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' What should I tell them?"
- Exodus 3:14 שְׁלָחַ֥/נִי Qal pf 3ms + sfx pers 1cs God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM," and he said, "You shall tell the children of Israel this: "I AM has sent me to you."
- Exodus 3:15 שְׁלָחַ֣/נִי Qal pf 3ms + sfx pers 1cs God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of Israel this, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
- Exodus 3:20 וְ/שָׁלַחְתִּ֤י יְשַׁלַּ֥ח conj + Qal wpf 1cs Piel impf 3ms I will put forth my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst of it, and after that he will let you go.
- Exodus 4:4 שְׁלַח֙ וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֤ח Qal impv 2ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh said to Moses, "Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail." He put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.
- Exodus 4:13 שְֽׁלַֽח תִּשְׁלָֽח Qal impv 2ms Qal impf 2ms He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else."
- Exodus 4:21 יְשַׁלַּ֖ח Piel impf 3ms Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
- Exodus 4:23 שַׁלַּ֤ח לְ/שַׁלְּח֑/וֹ Piel impv 2ms prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"
- Exodus 4:28 שְׁלָח֑/וֹ Qal pf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had charged him.
- Exodus 5:1 שַׁלַּח֙ Piel impv 2ms Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"
- Exodus 5:2 לְ/שַׁלַּ֖ח אֲשַׁלֵּֽחַ prep + Piel inf.cs Piel impf 1cs Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go."
- Exodus 5:22 שְׁלַחְתָּֽ/נִי Qal pf 2ms + sfx pers 1cs Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
- Exodus 6:1 יְשַׁלְּחֵ֔/ם Piel impf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land."
- Exodus 6:11 וִֽ/ישַׁלַּ֥ח conj + Piel impf 3ms "Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land."
- Exodus 7:2 וְ/שִׁלַּ֥ח conj + Piel wpf 3ms You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
- Exodus 7:14 לְ/שַׁלַּ֥ח prep + Piel inf.cs Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.
- Exodus 7:16 שְׁלָחַ֤/נִי שַׁלַּח֙ Qal pf 3ms + sfx pers 1cs Piel impv 2ms You shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness:" and, behold, until now you haven't listened.
- Exodus 8:1 שַׁלַּ֥ח Piel impv 2ms Yahweh spoke to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, "This is what Yahweh says, 'Let my people go, that they may serve me.
- Exodus 8:2 לְ/שַׁלֵּ֑חַ prep + Piel inf.cs If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs:
- Exodus 8:8 וַ/אֲשַׁלְּחָה֙ conj + Piel coh 1cs Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, "Entreat Yahweh, that he take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh."
- Exodus 8:20 שַׁלַּ֥ח Piel impv 2ms Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes forth to the water; and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh says, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
- Exodus 8:21 מְשַׁלֵּ֣חַ מַשְׁלִ֨יחַ Piel ptcp.act ms Hiphil ptcp.act ms Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
- Exodus 8:28 אֲשַׁלַּ֤ח Piel impf 1cs Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me."
- Exodus 8:29 שַׁלַּ֣ח Piel inf.cs Moses said, "Behold, I go out from you, and I will pray to Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don't let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Yahweh."
- Exodus 8:32 שִׁלַּ֖ח Piel pf 3ms Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn't let the people go.
- Exodus 9:1 שַׁלַּ֥ח Piel impv 2ms Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
- Exodus 9:2 לְ/שַׁלֵּ֑חַ prep + Piel inf.cs For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
- Exodus 9:7 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֣ח שִׁלַּ֖ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Piel pf 3ms Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn't let the people go.
- Exodus 9:13 שַׁלַּ֥ח Piel impv 2ms Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
- Exodus 9:14 שֹׁלֵ֜חַ Qal ptcp.act ms For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
- Exodus 9:15 שָׁלַ֣חְתִּי Qal pf 1cs For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
- Exodus 9:17 שַׁלְּחָֽ/ם Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't let them go.
- Exodus 9:19 שְׁלַ֤ח Qal impv 2ms Now therefore command that all of your cattle and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. Every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn't brought home, the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die."'"
- Exodus 9:27 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֣ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
- Exodus 9:28 וַ/אֲשַׁלְּחָ֣ה conj + Piel coh 1cs Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."
- Exodus 9:35 שִׁלַּ֖ח Piel pf 3ms The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn't let the children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.
- Exodus 10:3 שַׁלַּ֥ח Piel impv 2ms Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
- Exodus 10:4 לְ/שַׁלֵּ֣חַ prep + Piel inf.cs Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
- Exodus 10:7 שַׁלַּח֙ Piel impv 2ms Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"
- Exodus 10:10 אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח Piel impf 1cs He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.
- Exodus 10:20 שִׁלַּ֖ח Piel pf 3ms But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go.
- Exodus 10:27 לְ/שַׁלְּחָֽ/ם prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let them go.
- Exodus 11:1 יְשַׁלַּ֥ח כְּ/שַׁ֨לְּח֔/וֹ Piel impf 3ms prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms Yahweh said to Moses, "Yet one plague more will I bring on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.
- Exodus 11:10 שִׁלַּ֥ח Piel pf 3ms Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go out of his land.
- Exodus 12:33 לְ/שַׁלְּחָ֣/ם prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men."
- Exodus 13:15 לְ/שַׁלְּחֵ/נוּ֒ prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 1cp and it happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animal. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.'
- Exodus 13:17 בְּ/שַׁלַּ֣ח prep + Piel inf.cs It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"
- Exodus 14:5 שִׁלַּ֥חְנוּ Piel pf 1cp It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"
- Exodus 15:7 תְּשַׁלַּח֙ Piel impf 2ms In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you: You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
- Exodus 18:27 וַ/יְשַׁלַּ֥ח conj + Piel wimpf 3ms Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.
- Exodus 21:26 יְשַׁלְּחֶ֖/נּוּ Piel impf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
- Exodus 21:27 יְשַׁלְּחֶ֖/נּוּ Piel impf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms If he strikes out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
- Exodus 22:5 וְ/שִׁלַּח֙ conj + Piel pf 3ms "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.
- Exodus 22:8 שָׁלַ֛ח Qal pf 3ms If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods.
- Exodus 22:11 שָׁלַ֛ח Qal pf 3ms the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
- Exodus 23:20 שֹׁלֵ֤חַ Qal ptcp.act ms "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
- Exodus 23:27 אֲשַׁלַּ֣ח Piel impf 1cs I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
- Exodus 23:28 וְ/שָׁלַחְתִּ֥י conj + Qal wpf 1cs I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
- Exodus 24:5 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֗ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen to Yahweh.
- Exodus 24:11 שָׁלַ֖ח Qal pf 3ms He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
- Exodus 33:2 וְ/שָׁלַחְתִּ֥י conj + Qal wpf 1cs I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
- Exodus 33:12 תִּשְׁלַ֖ח Qal impf 2ms Moses said to Yahweh, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up this people:' and you haven't let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.'
Leviticus 10 verses
- Leviticus 14:7 וְ/שִׁלַּ֛ח conj + Piel wpf 3ms He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.
- Leviticus 14:53 וְ/שִׁלַּ֞ח conj + Piel wpf 3ms but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean."
- Leviticus 16:10 לְ/שַׁלַּ֥ח prep + Piel inf.cs But the goat, on which the lot fell for the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away for the scapegoat into the wilderness.
- Leviticus 16:21 וְ/שִׁלַּ֛ח conj + Piel wpf 3ms Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.
- Leviticus 16:22 וְ/שִׁלַּ֥ח conj + Piel wpf 3ms The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.
- Leviticus 16:26 וְ/הַֽ/מְשַׁלֵּ֤חַ conj + ptcl def.art + Piel ptcp.act ms "He who lets the goat go for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
- Leviticus 18:24 מְשַׁלֵּ֖חַ Piel ptcp.act ms "'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
- Leviticus 20:23 מְשַׁלֵּ֖חַ Piel ptcp.act ms You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
- Leviticus 26:22 וְ/הִשְׁלַחְתִּ֨י conj + Hiphil wpf 1cs I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate.
- Leviticus 26:25 וְ/שִׁלַּ֤חְתִּי conj + Piel wpf 1cs I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Numbers 26 verses
- Numbers 5:2 וִֽ/ישַׁלְּחוּ֙ conj + Piel impf 3mp "Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.
- Numbers 5:3 תְּשַׁלֵּ֔חוּ תְּשַׁלְּח֑וּ/ם Piel impf 2mp Piel impf 2mp + sfx pers 3mp Both male and female shall you put out, outside of the camp shall you put them; that they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell."
- Numbers 5:4 וַ/יְשַׁלְּח֣וּ conj + Piel wimpf 3mp The children of Israel did so, and put them out outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.
- Numbers 13:2 שְׁלַח תִּשְׁלָ֔חוּ Qal impv 2ms Qal impf 2mp Send you men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, everyone a prince among them.
- Numbers 13:3 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֨ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 13:16 שָׁלַ֥ח Qal pf 3ms These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
- Numbers 13:17 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֤ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country:
- Numbers 13:27 שְׁלַחְתָּ֑/נוּ Qal pf 2ms + sfx pers 1cp They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
- Numbers 14:36 שָׁלַ֥ח Qal pf 3ms The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,
- Numbers 16:12 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֣ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, We won't come up:
- Numbers 16:28 שְׁלָחַ֔/נִי Qal pf 3ms + sfx pers 1cs Moses said, Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of my own mind.
- Numbers 16:29 שְׁלָחָֽ/נִי Qal pf 3ms + sfx pers 1cs If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Yahweh hasn't sent me.
- Numbers 20:14 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֨ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus says your brother Israel, You know all the travail that has happened to us:
- Numbers 20:16 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֣ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms and when we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border.
- Numbers 21:6 וַ/יְשַׁלַּ֨ח conj + Piel wimpf 3ms Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
- Numbers 21:21 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֤ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
- Numbers 21:32 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֤ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns of it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
- Numbers 22:5 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֨ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they abide over against me.
- Numbers 22:10 שָׁלַ֥ח Qal pf 3ms Balaam said to God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, [saying],
- Numbers 22:15 שְׁלֹ֣חַ Qal inf.cs Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.
- Numbers 22:37 שָׁלֹ֨חַ שָׁלַ֤חְתִּי Qal inf.abs Qal pf 1cs Balak said to Balaam, Didn't I earnestly send to you to call you? why didn't you come to me? am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?
- Numbers 22:40 וַ/יְשַׁלַּ֣ח conj + Piel wimpf 3ms Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.
- Numbers 24:12 שָׁלַ֥חְתָּ Qal pf 2ms Balaam said to Balak, Didn't I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying,
- Numbers 31:4 תִּשְׁלְח֖וּ Qal impf 2mp Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall you send to the war.
- Numbers 31:6 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֨ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
- Numbers 32:8 בְּ/שָׁלְחִ֥/י prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 1cs Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Deuteronomy 20 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:22 נִשְׁלְחָ֤ה Qal coh 1cp You came near to me everyone of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.
- Deuteronomy 2:26 וָ/אֶשְׁלַ֤ח conj + Qal wimpf 1cs I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
- Deuteronomy 7:20 יְשַׁלַּ֛ח Piel impf 3ms Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
- Deuteronomy 9:23 וּ/בִ/שְׁלֹ֨חַ conj + prep + Qal inf.cs When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn't believe him, nor listen to his voice.
- Deuteronomy 15:12 תְּשַׁלְּחֶ֥/נּוּ Piel impf 2ms + sfx pers 3ms If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
- Deuteronomy 15:13 תְשַׁלְּחֶ֥/נּוּ תְשַׁלְּחֶ֖/נּוּ Piel impf 2ms + sfx pers 3ms Piel impf 2ms + sfx pers 3ms When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:
- Deuteronomy 15:18 בְּ/שַׁלֵּֽחֲ/ךָ֙ prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 2ms It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.
- Deuteronomy 19:12 וְ/שָֽׁלְחוּ֙ conj + Qal wpf 3cp then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
- Deuteronomy 21:14 וְ/שִׁלַּחְתָּ/הּ֙ conj + Piel wpf 2ms + sfx pers 3fs It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
- Deuteronomy 22:7 שַׁלֵּ֤חַ תְּשַׁלַּח֙ Piel inf.abs Piel impf 2ms you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
- Deuteronomy 22:19 לְ/שַּׁלְּחָ֖/הּ prep + Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs and they shall fine him one hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
- Deuteronomy 22:29 שַׁלְּחָ֖/ה Piel inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.
- Deuteronomy 24:1 וְ/שִׁלְּחָ֖/הּ conj + Piel wpf 3ms + sfx pers 3fs When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
- Deuteronomy 24:3 וְ/שִׁלְּחָ֖/הּ conj + Piel wpf 3ms + sfx pers 3fs If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
- Deuteronomy 24:4 שִׁ֠לְּחָ/הּ Piel pf 3ms + sfx pers 3fs her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 25:11 וְ/שָׁלְחָ֣ה conj + Qal wpf 3fs When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;
- Deuteronomy 28:20 יְשַׁלַּ֣ח Piel impf 3ms Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.
- Deuteronomy 28:48 יְשַׁלְּחֶ֤/נּוּ Piel impf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms therefore shall you serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he have destroyed you.
- Deuteronomy 32:24 אֲשַׁלַּח Piel impf 1cs [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat Bitter destruction; The teeth of animals will I send on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
- Deuteronomy 34:11 שְׁלָח/וֹ֙ Qal pf 3ms + sfx pers 3ms in all the signs and the wonders, which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
Joshua 23 verses
- Joshua 1:16 תִּשְׁלָחֵ֖/נוּ Qal impf 2ms + sfx pers 1cp They answered Joshua, saying, All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
- Joshua 2:1 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֣ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Jericho. They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and lay there.
- Joshua 2:3 וַ/יִּשְׁלַח֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men who are come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to search out all the land.
- Joshua 2:21 וַֽ/תְּשַׁלְּחֵ֖/ם conj + Piel wimpf 3fs + sfx pers 3mp She said, According to your words, so be it. She sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
- Joshua 6:17 שָׁלָֽחְנוּ Qal pf 1cp The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to Yahweh: only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
- Joshua 6:25 שָׁלַ֥ח Qal pf 3ms But Rahab the prostitute, and her father's household, and all that she had, did Joshua save alive; and she lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
- Joshua 7:2 וַ/יִּשְׁלַח֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. The men went up and spied out Ai.
- Joshua 7:22 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֤ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
- Joshua 8:3 וַ/יִּשְׁלָחֵ֖/ם conj + Qal wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.
- Joshua 8:9 וַ/יִּשְׁלָחֵ֣/ם conj + Qal wimpf 3ms + sfx pers 3mp Joshua sent them forth; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
- Joshua 10:3 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֨ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,
- Joshua 10:6 וַ/יִּשְׁלְח֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Don't slack your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill-country are gathered together against us.
- Joshua 11:1 וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֗ח conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened, when Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
- Joshua 14:7 בִּ֠/שְׁלֹחַ prep + Qal inf.cs Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
- Joshua 14:11 שְׁלֹ֤חַ Qal inf.cs As yet I am as strong this day as I as in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to come in.
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At its core, שלח (shâlach) means “to send.” Across 5 stems, its meaning turns on the binyan (Qal, Niphal). It turns up in 790 verses across 34 books, one of the most common footprint. It first appears in Genesis 3:22. It clusters with משלוח, שלוח and שלח under a shared root. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
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Strong's · 1890
[idiom] any wise
Modern gloss
to send
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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Strong's H7971 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
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- 790
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 790 distinct verses.
- 34 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 34 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #52
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 52 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 790 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 456 verses · 58%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 185 verses · 23%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 149 verses · 19%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Sent 211×, He sent 53×, Send 35×
- American Standard Version: Sent 194×, He sent 48×, Send 35×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sent 148×, I will send 34×, Send 28×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sent 176×, And 106×, He sent 69×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7971 across 852 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 223 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7971 across 851 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 242 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7971 across 827 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 253 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 19 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7971 across 1,063 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 170 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
35 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Pual (the passive of Piel).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 35 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. שׁ׳ Gn 42:4 +, 2 ms. sf. שְׁלַחְתָּ֑נִי Ex 5:22, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יִשְׁלַח Gn 3:22 +, 2 fpl. תִּשְׁלַ֫חְנָה Ez 23:40 (Ju 5:26 read תִּשְׁלָחֶנָּה? Ob 3 תִּשְׁלַח יָד? Ges§ 47 k); Imv. ms. שְׁלַח 1 S 20:31 +, mpl. שְׁלָ֑חוּ 2 K 2:17; Inf. abs. שָׁל(וֹ)חַ Nu 22:37 +; cstr. שְׁלֹחַ v 15 +, שְׁלַח Is 58:9, sf. שָׁלְחֶ֑ךָ Gn 38:17, etc.; Pt. act. שֹׁלֵחַ Ex 9:14 +, etc.; שָׁלוּחַ 1 K 14:6 +, etc.;— e.g. Genesis 42:4
- 1. send: human subj., especially
- a. acc. pers. Gn 42:4; 43:8 (both J; c. אֵת with, pers.) Nu 22:15 (E) + often, c. ל rei for which Je 14:3; 16:16; sq. אֶל pers. Gn 37:13 (J), 2 S 11:6; Ne 6:5 +; rarely c. ל pers. Gn 32:19 (J; pass.), אֶל loc. 2 Ch 16:4, ב loc. 1 S 11:3, acc. loc. 2 K 22:3, -ה loc. 1 K 5:28, -ה loc. + מֵעַל pers. 2 S 13:17, מִן loc. Gn 37:14 (J), Nu 13:3 (P), etc.; sq. inf. purpose 1 S 25:14 (+ מִן loc.), 2 K 1:16 Je 40:14 +, אֶל pers. c. inf. purpose 2 S 10:3; Je 42:9 +, c. ו subord. 2 K 5:6, c. vb. fin. actionis Ex 2:5 (E), sent her maid and took, +, etc. (many combinations); acc. pers. alone 24:5 (E), Jos 7:22 (E), 2 S 10:7 + often e.g. Genesis 42:4
- b. less often acc. rei (sometimes c. בְּיַד of agent), c. אֶל pers. 1 S 16:20; 2 K 5:5; 20:12 +, 1 K 5:23 (= designate by sending unto), ל pers. Ju 3:15; 1 K 5:22 +, אֶל loc. Est 1:22, שָׁ֫מָּה 2 K 6:14; + inf. purpose 1 Ch 19:4; Est 4:4; + vb. fin. action. ψ 105:28; acc. of kid, alone, Gn 38:23 also (acc. om.) v 17, etc. e.g. 1 Samuel 16:20
- c. very often without obj.: + vb. fin. action., send and do so and so, Gn 27:45 (E), 2 K 11:4; Jb 1:5 +; c. אֶל pers. Ho 5:13; 2 S 11:6 +, especially + לֵאמֹר Gn 38:25 (J), 1 K 20:5 (often S K), Je 29:28 +; c. inf. purpose Gn 32:6 (J), Nu 21:32 (J), 1 S 22:11 +, etc. (and so 1 S 31:9, reading וַיִּשְׁלְחוּ, for Pi., Th We Dr Now, not HPS Bu); abs. 2 K 2:16, 17; 2 S 14:29; = send to inquire 1 K 20:17, etc. e.g. Genesis 27:45
- 2. send: subj. י׳ (God),
- a. acc. pers. Gn 45:5 (E; לִפְנֵי pers.), 1 S 15:18 (בְּדָ֑רֶךְ), + אֶל pers. 2 S 12:1; acc. of angel, לִפְנֵי pers. Gn 24:7; Ex 33:2 (both J), אֵת with Gn 24:40 (J), etc.; c. acc. pers. = commission Ex 3:12 (E), Ju 6:14; Is 6:8; Je 14:14, 15 + often Je, Zc 2:13 +; also (c. אֶל pers.) Ex 3:13 (E), Je 25:4; Ez 3:6 +, etc.; especially of sending prophet, (שָׁלַח), הַשְׁכֵּם וְשָׁלוֹחַ Je 7:25 + (v. [שָׁכַם]); acc. pers. + inf. purpose 1 S 15:1; Je 19:14 +; + עַד loc. 2 K 2:2, acc. loc. v 4, ה—ָ loc. v 6, etc. e.g. Genesis 45:5
- b. c. acc. rei, plagues Ex 9:14 (c. אֶל־לֵב, ב pers.), fig. arrows 2 S 22:15 = ψ 18:15 (+ vb. fin. action.), ψ 144:6, cf. Je 25:16 al.; his word Is 9:7 (ב gent.), 55:11 (אשׁר to which), Zc 7:12 (ב agent.), ψ 107:20 (+ vb. fin. action.), 147:15 (+ acc. אֶרֶץ); acc. help 20:3 (מִן loc.), light and truth 43:3 (+ vb. fin. action.), cf. 57:4. e.g. Exodus 9:14
- 3. stretch out, especially acc. hand:
- a. human subj., c. ב pers. against, Gn 37:22 (E), 1 S 24:11; Est 2:21 +; c. ב rei (property of others) Ex 22:7, 10 (E), Est 9:10 +, בַּחַלָּמִישׁ Jb 28:9; c. אֶל pers. against Gn 22:12 (E), 2 S 18:12, עַל pers. 1 K 13:4, etc.; אֶל rei (for good) 2 S 6:6 (יָד om.); from outside, inward, Ct 5:4 (מִן loc.); abs. Jb 30:24 (read טֹבֵעַ for בְּעִי Di Bi Bu). + inf. purpose 1 S 22:17; 2 S 1:14; 1 Ch 13:9; + vb. fin. act. Gn 3:22 (J) Dt 25:11; Ju 15:15 +; שׁ׳ אֶצְבַּע Is 58:9, in token of scorn; c. acc. of rod 1 S 14:27; שִׁלֳחוּ מַגָּל Jo 4:13 stretch out (the) sickle. e.g. Genesis 37:22
- b. י׳ subj., acc. hand, + אֶל pers. against Ex 24:11 (E), cf. (עַל) ψ 138:7; + vb. fin. act. †Ex 3:20 (JE), 9:15 (J), Jb 1:11; 2:5; in favour, Je 1:9, abs. ψ 144:7 (מִן loc.), also (pass.) Ez 2:9 and (acc. תַּבְנִית יָד), 8:3. e.g. Exodus 24:11
- c. acc. hand, subj. angel, + acc. loc., inf. purpose 2 S 24:16, cherub, אֶל rei, מִן loc. Ez 10:7; adversary, אֶל pers. Jb 1:12; subj. angle, acc. rod Ju 6:21. e.g. 2 Samuel 24:16
- d. stretched out, slender, of tree Gn 49:21 (poem in J), v. i. אֵלָה supr. p. 18b. e.g. Genesis 49:21
- e. perhaps extend, direct, acc. rei Ez 8:17 (v. זְמוֹרָה supr. p. 274b, also conj. in Toy Krae). e.g. Ezekiel 8:17
- 4. rarely send away (v. Pi.): human subj., acc. pers. Ju 11:38 (+ acc. temp.), Gn 28:5 (P). e.g. Judges 11:38
- 5. let loose (v. Pi.), perhaps only ψ 50:19 (fig.) thy mouth hast thou let loose in evil. e.g. Psalms 50:19
Niphal
- Inf. abs. וְנִשְׁלוֹחַ סְפָרִים = letters were sent (Ges§ 114 z gg) Est 3:13 (+ אֶל pers., בְּיַד agent., inf. purpose). e.g. Esther 3:13
Piel
- Pf. 3 ms. שִׁלַּח Ex 8:28 +, sf. שִׁלַּחֲךָ 1 S 20:22, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יְשַׁלַּח Je 3:1 +, יְשַׁלֵּ֑חַ Is 45:13; Pr 6:14; 1 s. sf. אֲשַׁלֵּחֲךָ Gn 32:27, אֲשַׁלְּחֶ֫ךָּ 2 S 11:12 1 K 20:34, etc.; Imv. ms. שַׁלַּח Ex 4:23 +, etc.; Inf. abs. Dt 22:7 1 K 11:22; cstr. שַׁלַּח Gn 8:10 +, שַׁלֵּ֑חַ Ex 7:27 +, etc.; Pt. מְשַׁלֵּחַ Gn 43:4 +, etc.;— e.g. Exodus 8:28
- 1. send off, away, human subj.:
- a. acc. pers. + ל loc. Jos 24:28 (E), Ju 7:8; 1 S 10:25 +; + ל pers. Je 48:12; + -ה loc. Ju 12:9 and (c. inf. purpose) Gn 28:6 (P); acc. of goat, לַעֲזָאזֵל Lv 16:10 (-ה loc.), v 26; send out, different ways, acc. pers., ב loc. Ju 19:29; 20:6; send into exile, י׳ subj., c. מִן loc. Je 24:5, -ה loc. 29:20. e.g. Joshua 24:28
- b. send away, dismiss, acc. pers. Gn 21:14 (E), 25:6 (J; מֵעַל pers.), 2 S 13:16 +; specif., c. acc. of wife (= divorce), Dt 22:19, 29; 24:1, 3; Je 3:1 +, abs. Mal 2:16. e.g. Genesis 21:14
- c. send away empty (-handed) רֵיקָם, + acc. pers. Gn 31:42 (E), Dt 15:13; Jb 22:9. e.g. Genesis 31:41
- d. send off, give a ‘send-off’ (sometimes escort part way), acc. pers., Gn 18:16; 24:59; 31:27 (all J), 1 S 9:26; 2 S 19:32; 2 K 5:24; 6:23; Ob 7. e.g. Genesis 18:16
- e. acc. rei 1 S 6:8 Ne 8:12 +, c. acc. loc. 1 S 5:10; 6:3, אֶל pers. Je 27:3, etc. e.g. 1 Samuel 6:8
- 2.
- a. send away, subj. י׳, acc. pers. Gn 19:29 (J; מִתּוֹךְ), 1 K 9:7 (מֵעַל פְּנֵי). e.g. Genesis 19:29
- b. give over, acc. pers. ψ 81:13 (ב of evil). e.g. Psalms 81:13
- c. cast out, acc. pers. Je 28:16 (מֵעַל־פְּנֵי), Lv 18:24; 20:23 (both מִפְּנֵי). e.g. Jeremiah 28:16
- d. send out, forth, send on a mission, especially of י׳, c. acc. of hornet Dt 7:20, cf. 28:20; 32:24 (all ב pers.), serpents Nu 21:6 (E; ב pers.), lions 2 K 17:25, 26 (both id.), foes 2 K 24:2(×2) (+ inf. purpose); pestilence Am 4:10; Ez 28:23 (ב pers.), etc.; also springs into (ב) channel ψ 104:10. e.g. Deuteronomy 7:20
- 3. let go, set free (sometimes c. חָפְשִׁי) Ex 4:23; 5:2(×2) (all JE), 2 S 3:21, 23, 24 +; = cease to abuse Ju 19:25; + inf. purpose Gn 24:56 (J), Ex 5:1 (E; + 10 times Ex), 1 S 5:11; c. acc. of bird Gn 8:7, 8 (+ מֵאִתּוֹ) +; + עַל־פְּנֵי הַשָּׂדֶה Lv 14:7, cf. v 53 (both P); = let loose, acc. of beast, Ex 22:4 (E), Lv 16:22 (ב loc.); acc. of bridle Jb 30:11 (fig.); metaph. of strife Pr 6:14, 19; 16:28; let loose waters, subj. י׳, Jb 12:15. e.g. Exodus 4:23
- 4. shoot forth branches, Je 17:8 ψ 80:12 Ez 31:5 (but v. i. שֶׁלַח 2); cf. of locks (פֶּרַע) Ez 44:20 = let grow long. e.g. Jeremiah 17:8
- 5. let down, acc. pers. Je 38:6 (ב instr.), acc. rei v 11 (id. + אֶל pers. et loc.). e.g. Jeremiah 38:6
- 6. shoot (acc. of arrow om.), לְשַׁ׳ לִי לְמַטָּרָה 1 S 20:20. e.g. 1 Samuel 20:20
- 7. phrases: שִׁלַּח (אֶת־)הָעִיר בָּאֵשׁ †Ju 1:8; 20:48, cf. 2 K 8:12 ψ 74:7; but also שׁ׳ אֵשׁ בְּ †Am 1:4, 7, 10, 12; 2:2, 5; Ho 8:14; Ez 39:6; rare expressions are: וַיְשַׁלְּחֵם בְּיַד־פִּשְׁעָם Jb 8:4 (God subj.); stretch out hand, ב rei (for use) Pr 31:19, ל pers. (charity) v 20; חֶבְלֵיהֶם תְּשַׁלַּחְנָה Jb 39:3 (of hinds, bearing); שַׁלַּח לַחְמְךָ עַל־פְּנֵי הַמָּ֑יִם Ec 11:1.—רַגְלַי שִׁלֵּ֑חוּ Jb 30:12 is corrupt; Theod Ew Di רַגְלָם שִׁלֵּ֑חוּ; Me Bu Be al. dittogr. from v 11 b. e.g. Judges 1:8
Pual
- Pf. 3 ms. שֻׁלַּח Ju 5:15; Jb 18:8, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יְשֻׁלַּח Pr 17:11; Pt. מְשֻׁלָּח Is 16:2 +;—be sent off (started on journey) Gn 44:3 (J); with commission, ב pers. Ob 1; Pr 17:11, אֶל pers. Dn 10:11; be put away, divorced, of wife Is 50:1 (fig.); be impelled (?), בְּרַגְלָיו (= at his heels?), c. ב loc. Ju 5:15 (vb. dub.), cf. שֻׁלַּח בְּרֶשֶׁת בְּרַגְלָיו Jb 18:8 he is hurried into the net with his feet (? 𝔊 Du שֻׁלְּחָה רַגְלוֹ); קֵן מְשֻׁלָּח Is 16:2 a driven (scattered) nest (‖ עוֹף נוֹדֵד), cf. נָוֶה מְשׁ׳ וְנֶעֱזָב כַּמִּדְבָּר 27:10; נַעַר מְשׁ׳ Pr 29:15 a boy let loose (unrestrained). e.g. Judges 5:15
Hiphil
- Pf. 1 s. וְהִשְׁלַחְתִּ֫י and I (י׳) will send famine, בָּאָרֶץ Am 8:11, cf. Ez 14:13, wild beasts; ב pers. Lv 26:22 (H); Pt. מַשְׁלִיחַ, acc. of flies, ב pers. Ex 8:17 (J); Inf. cstr. לְהַשְׁלִיחַ, acc. of foe, ב gent. 2 K 15:37. e.g. Amos 8:11
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. send (NH id.; Ecclus 48:18 +; Aramaic שְׁלַח, ܫܠܰܚ, SoBuhl BaES 41 cp. Arabic سَرَحَ (r = l), send forth, drive cattle to pasture, send messenger, etc., but then diff. √ for i. שֶׁלַח, Arabic سِلَاحٌ, سِلَحٌ weapon; Assyrian prob. šalû (send, hurl?), whence tešlîtu, command);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שָׁלַח
- to draw out; to stretch forth; to send. Erub. III, 2 השׁוֹלֵחַ ערובו וכ׳ if one sends his ‘Erub (עֵרוּב) forth to be laid by a deaf and dumb person. Ḥull. 59ᵇ, a. fr. שָׁלְחוּ מתם they sent word from there (from Palestine to Babylonia). Gitt. IV, 1 השולח גט וכ׳ if a man sends a letter of divorce to his wife &c. B. Kam. VI, 4, v. בְּעֵרָה. Ib. ש׳ ביד פיקח (ib. 60ᵃ שִׁילֵּחַ) if he sent out fire through a sane person; a. fr.—Part. pass. שָׁלוּחַ q. v.—ש׳ יד ב־ [to stretch out a hand against,] to make illegitimate use of, to misappropriate (Ex. XXII, 10). B. Mets. III, 12 השולח יד בפקדון if a person makes use of a trust. Ib. החושב לִשְׁלוֹחַ יד וכ׳ if he declares his intention to use a trust; אינו חייב עד שיִשְׁלַח בו יד he is not responsible (for loss), until he has used it; a. fr. e.g. Exodus 22:10
- same, to send; to send away, dismiss. Bets. I, 9 אין מְשַׁלְּחִין בי"ט וכ׳ on the Holy Day you dare not send (to a friend) anything except portions (of eatables, ready for use); משלחין בהמה וכ׳ you may send cattle … alive or slaughtered. Ḥull. XII, 3 שִׁלְּחָהּ וחזרה if he sent the mother bird away, and she came back. Ib. אמר … ומְשַׁלֵּחַ הבנים if he says, I will take the mother, and send the young away; חייב לשַׁלֵּחַ he is bound to send her away. Gen. R. s. 21 שִׁלְּחוֹ מגן … ושלחו וכ׳ he banished him (Adam) from the paradise of this world and from that of the other world; a. fr.
- to be sent off; to be commissioned. Yoma VI, 2, a. e. המִשְׁתַּלֵּחַ the goat that is to be sent away (Lev. XVI, 10), the scapegoat. Ib. 1 נשפך … המשתלח if the blood (of the goat designated for sacrifice) was spilt, the scapegoat is to be put to death (cannot be used for the ceremony). Gen. R. s. 49 מעשה באחד שנש׳ לגבות וכ׳ it happened that one was commissioned to tax the inhabitants &c.; a. fr. e.g. Leviticus 16:10
שְׁלַח
- 1. to send, send off. Targ. Num. XIII, 2. Targ. O. ib. 16. Targ. Ps. XLIV, 3 Ms. (ed. פסד׳). Targ. Jer. XLII, 6 שָׁלְחִין (not שולחין); a. fr.—Part. pass. שְׁלִיחַ; f. שְׁלִיחָא; pl. שְׁלִיחִין, שְׁלִיחָן. Ob. I, 1. Targ. Is. XLIV, 26 שְׁלִיחוֹהִי ed. Lag. (ed. Wil. שְׁלוּח׳). Targ. I Chr. XIV, 15; a. fr.—Ber. 28ᵃ ש׳ להו וכ׳ R. J. sent them word to the school house; a. fr.—Koh. R. to III, 2 שְׁלִיחְהוֹן דברייתא the messenger of men (men’s guardian angel). e.g. Obadiah 1:1
- 2. to throw off, undress, flay (cmp. פָּשַׁט). Targ. Esth. V, 14. Targ. Is. XXXII, 11. Targ. II Chr. XXIX, 34; a. fr.—Ber. l. c. שְׁלַח מדך take off thy cloak (v. מַדָּא). Y. Taan. III, end, 67ᵃ הוה ש׳ מסאניה he took off one shoe; כד הוה ש׳ תריהון when he had taken off both of them; a. fr.—Part. pass. as ab. Sot. 8ᵇ (proverbial expression) ש׳ ערטילאי וכ׳ undressed, naked, but with shoes on (a person cares more for shoes than for any other article of dress); Keth. 65ᵇ top האי תנא ש׳ וכ׳ this Tannai (who gave the wife the right to ask for three pairs of shoes and one suit of clothes) seems to assume that a woman cares more for shoes &c. Koh. R. to V, 10 איך אינון אתיין שליחין וכ׳ (not שלו׳) how will they come (on resurrection day), naked, or dressed? Ib. היך זרעתין ש׳ וכ׳ how didst thou plant them (the beans), undressed or dressed (in the pods)? a. e.
- 1. to send; to send off, dismiss. Targ. O. Lev. XVI, 21, sq. Targ. O. Ex. VIII, 17; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְשַׁלַּח; f. מְשַׁלְּחָא &c. Targ. O. Gen. XXXII, 19.
- 2. to strip, undress. Y. R. Hash. II, 58ᵇ top ובטול … יְשַׁלַּח and in the shade of the fig tree he (the ox) would shed his skin (feeling warm, he would rub himself against the tree); Snh. 18ᵇ. Sabb. 33ᵇ הוו מְשַׁלְּחֵי מנייהו used to put off their clothes. Shebu. 41ᵃ צורבא דרבנן משלח וכ׳ may a scholar strip a man of his cloak? (i.e. should a scholar as such have any prerogatives in law?); a. fr.
- 1. to send off, let loose. Targ. O. Ex. VIII, 17.
- 2. to strip, throw off; to flay. Targ. I Sam. XIX, 24. Targ. II Chr. XXXV, 11. Targ. Lev. I, 6 (Y. II ויחליש). Targ. Num. XX, 26; a. fr.
- 1. to be sent, sent off. Targ. Jud. V, 15. Targ. Y. Gen. XXXII, 19; a. fr.
- 2. to be stripped; to shed the skin. Ib. III, 21.—Ḥull. 59ᵃ מאן … מִישְׁתַּלַּח משכיה he who eats three Tiḳlas of asafoetida on an empty stomach, will shed his skin; ואי לא … מישת׳ משכאי had I not sat in water, I should have &c.
שֶׁלַח I
- (preced.) hide, fresh skin. Makhsh. V, 6 החובט על הש׳ he who beats upon a (wetted) hide. Bekh. IX, 4 נשחטה … והש׳ קיים when its mother has been killed, but the hide is still intact. Tosef. Sabb. VIII (IX), 1; a. e.—Pl. שְׁלָחִין. Sabb. IV, 2 טומנין בש׳ you may keep dishes warm (for the Sabbath) in fresh hides. Ib. 49ᵃ ש׳ של בעה"ב hides belonging to a private man; של אומן to a mechanic (shoemaker &c.). Ib.ᵇ הביאו ש׳ וכ׳ bring us hides to sit down on them; a. e.
שֶׁלַח
- (שָׁלַח) [stripped of its skin,] a pressed olive the stone of which slips out at a touch.—Pl. שְׁלָחִין, שְׁלוּ׳. Ab. Zar. II, 7 (39ᵇ; Mish. a. Y. ed. שלו׳). Ib. 40ᵇ היכי דמי ש׳ וכ׳ when are they called Sh’laḥin? When the stone slips out as you take the olive in your hand.
שֶׁלַח III
- , pl. שְׁלָחִין (tradit. pronunc. שַׁלְחִין) (שלח; cmp. Job V, 10, a. Neh. III, 15) arms, ditches for irrigation; בית הש׳ (שדה) a field which needs irrigation, opp. בית הבעל (v. בַּעַל). M. Kat. I, 1. Tosef. ib. I, 1 שדה בית הש׳ שחרבה a field dependent on irrigation which has become dry. Ib. 4 השלוחין ed. Zuck. (Var. השלח׳). M. Kat. 2ᵃ מאי משמע דהאי בית הש׳ לישנא דצחותא וכ׳ what evidence is there that beth hash-sh’laḥin has the meaning of thirstiness (dryness)? Answ. ref. to מְשַׁלְהֵי for עָיֵף (v. שַׁלְהֵי I). B. Bath. IV, 7 בית הש׳ the fields belonging to a township; expl. ib. 68ᵃ באגי fields, גינונייתא gardens (ref. to Cant. IV, 13). Ib. 99ᵇ; a. e. e.g. Job 5:10
שֶׁלַח IV
- (שָׁלַח) extension, stepping space or depth of a step. Midd. II, 3; III, 6 ושִׁלְחָהּ אמה and the depth of each step was one cubit, v. רוּם II.
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Forms in the corpus
The 457 distinct written forms H7971 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 397 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7971, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
- משלוח mishlôwach H4916 pasture
- שלוח shillûwach H7964 parting gift
- שלח shᵉlach H7972 to send
- שלח shelach H7973 weapon
- שלחן shulchân H7979 table
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 745 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 790 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 3:22
- Exodus 2:5
- Leviticus 14:7
- Numbers 5:2
- Deuteronomy 1:22
- Joshua 1:16
- Judges 1:8
- 1 Samuel 4:4
- 2 Samuel 1:14
- 1 Kings 1:44
- 2 Kings 1:2
- 1 Chronicles 8:8
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
