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שָׁלַח

sha.lachto send: departHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb847 occurrences34 books790 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
Traditional renderings: × any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, × earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders שָׁלַח:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

847 total
  1. 2 Kings 2:17שְׁלָ֑חוּ · Send [them]; וַֽיִּשְׁלְחוּ֙ · And they sent
    But when they pressed him to the point of embarrassment, he said, “Send them.” And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find Elijah.
  2. 2 Kings 3:7וַיִּשְׁלַח֩ · And he sent
    And he sent a message to Jehoshaphat king of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to fight against Moab?” “I will go,” replied Jehoshaphat. “I am as you are, my people are your people, and my horses are your horses.”
  3. 2 Kings 4:22שִׁלְחָ֨ה · send
    And the woman called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return.”
  4. 2 Kings 5:5וְאֶשְׁלְחָ֥ה · and I will send you with
    “Go now,” said the king of Aram, “and I will send you with a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman departed, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of clothing.
  5. 2 Kings 5:6שָׁלַ֤חְתִּי · I am sending
    And the letter that he took to the king of Israel stated: “With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman, so that you may cure him of his leprosy.”
  6. 2 Kings 5:7שֹׁלֵ֣חַ · expects
    When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”
  7. 2 Kings 5:8וַיִּשְׁלַח֙ · he sent
    Now when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king: “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let the man come to me, and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.”
  8. 2 Kings 5:10וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח · sent
    Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”
  9. 2 Kings 5:22שְׁלָחַ֣נִי · has sent me
    “Everything is all right,” Gehazi replied. “My master has sent me to say, ‘Look, two young men from the sons of the prophets have just now come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.’”
  10. 2 Kings 5:24וַיְשַׁלַּ֥ח · Then he dismissed
    When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the gifts from the servants and stored them in the house. Then he dismissed the men, and they departed.
  11. 2 Kings 6:7וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח · and [the man] reached out
    “Lift it out,” he said, and the man reached out his hand and took it.
  12. 2 Kings 6:9וַיִּשְׁלַ֞ח · sent
    Then the man of God sent word to the king of Israel: “Be careful not to pass by this place, for the Arameans are going down there.”
  13. 2 Kings 6:10וַיִּשְׁלַ֞ח · sent
    So the king of Israel sent word to the place the man of God had pointed out. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.
  14. 2 Kings 6:13וְאֶשְׁלַ֖ח · that I may send
    So the king said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send men to capture him.” On receiving the report, “Elisha is in Dothan,”
  15. 2 Kings 6:14וַיִּשְׁלַח־ · [the king of Aram] sent
    …the king of Aram sent horses, chariots, and a great army. They went there by night and surrounded the city.
  16. 2 Kings 6:23וַֽיְשַׁלְּחֵ֔ם · he sent them away
    So the king prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. And the Aramean raiders did not come into the land of Israel again.
  17. 2 Kings 6:32וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח · The king sent; שָׁלַ֞ח · has sent
    Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”
  18. 2 Kings 7:13וְנִשְׁלְחָ֖ה · So let us send them
    But one of his servants replied, “Please, have scouts take five of the horses that remain in the city. Their plight will be no worse than all the Israelites who are left here. You can see that all the Israelites here are doomed. So let us send them and find out.”
  19. 2 Kings 7:14וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח · sent them
    Then the scouts took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, “Go and see.”
  20. 2 Kings 8:9שְׁלָחַ֤נִי · has sent me
    So Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift of forty camel loads of every good thing from Damascus. And he went in and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
  21. 2 Kings 8:12תְּשַׁלַּ֤ח · You will set
    “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”
  22. 2 Kings 9:17וּֽשְׁלַ֥ח · Send him out
    Now the watchman standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, and he called out, “I see a company of troops!” “Choose a rider,” Joram commanded. “Send him out to meet them and ask, ‘Have you come in peace?’”
  23. 2 Kings 9:19וַיִּשְׁלַ֗ח · So [the king] sent out
    So the king sent out a second horseman, who went to them and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.”
  24. 2 Kings 10:1וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח · and sent them
    Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:
  25. 2 Kings 10:5וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח · sent
    So the palace administrator, the overseer of the city, the elders, and the guardians sent a message to Jehu: “We are your servants, and we will do whatever you say. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your sight.”
  26. 2 Kings 10:7וַיִּשְׁלְח֥וּ · and sent them
    And when the letter arrived, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.
  27. 2 Kings 10:21וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח · sent word
    Then Jehu sent word throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; there was not a man who failed to show. They entered the temple of Baal, and it was filled from end to end.
  28. 2 Kings 11:4שָׁלַ֨ח · sent for
    Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, and the guards, and had them brought into the house of the LORD. There he made a covenant with them and put them under oath. He showed them the king’s son
  29. 2 Kings 12:18וַיִּשְׁלַ֗ח · and he sent them
    So King Joash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. So Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.
  30. 2 Kings 14:8שָׁלַ֤ח · sent
    Then Amaziah sent messengers to the king of Israel Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu. “Come, let us meet face to face,” he said.
  31. 2 Kings 14:9וַיִּשְׁלַ֞ח · replied; שָׁ֠לַח · sent
    But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.
  32. 2 Kings 14:19וַיִּשְׁלְח֤וּ · But men were sent
    And conspirators plotted against Amaziah in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.
  33. 2 Kings 15:37לְהַשְׁלִ֙יחַ֙ · to send
    (In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.)
  34. 2 Kings 16:7וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח · sent
    So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hands of the kings of Aram and Israel, who are rising up against me.”
  35. 2 Kings 16:8וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח · and he sent it
    Ahaz also took the silver and gold found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s palace, and he sent it as a gift to the king of Assyria.
  36. 2 Kings 16:10וַיִּשְׁלַח֩ · sent
    Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. On seeing the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent Uriah the priest a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction.
  37. 2 Kings 16:11שָׁלַח֩ · had sent
    And Uriah the priest built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and he completed it before King Ahaz returned.
  38. 2 Kings 17:4שָׁלַ֤ח · to send
    But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.
  39. 2 Kings 17:13שָׁלַ֣חְתִּי · and delivered
    Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
  40. 2 Kings 17:25וַיְשַׁלַּ֨ח · sent
    Now when the settlers first lived there, they did not worship the LORD, so He sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
  41. 2 Kings 17:26וַיְשַׁלַּח־ · He has sent
    So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The peoples that you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land. Because of this, He has sent lions among them, which are indeed killing them off.”
  42. 2 Kings 18:14וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח · sent
    So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.” And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
  43. 2 Kings 18:17וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח · sent
    Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
  44. 2 Kings 18:27שְׁלָחַ֣נִי · sent me
    But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
  45. 2 Kings 19:2וַ֠יִּשְׁלַח · And he sent
    And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz
  46. 2 Kings 19:4שְׁלָח֨וֹ · has sent
    Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
  47. 2 Kings 19:9וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח · sent
    Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush: “Look, he has set out to fight against you.” So Sennacherib again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,