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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. Jeremiah 8:17מְשַׁלֵּ֜חַ · I will send
    “For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
  2. Jeremiah 9:16וְשִׁלַּחְתִּ֤י · and I will send
    I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”
  3. Jeremiah 9:17שִׁלְח֖וּ · send
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
  4. Jeremiah 14:3שָׁלְח֥וּ · send
    The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
  5. Jeremiah 14:14שְׁלַחְתִּים֙ · send them
    “The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.
  6. Jeremiah 14:15שְׁלַחְתִּים֒ · send them
    Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!
  7. Jeremiah 15:1שַׁלַּ֥ח · Send them
    Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!
  8. Jeremiah 16:16שֹׁלֵ֜חַ · I will send for; אֶשְׁלַח֙ · I will send
    But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.
  9. Jeremiah 17:8יְשַׁלַּ֣ח
    He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.
  10. Jeremiah 19:14שְׁלָח֧וֹ · had sent him
    Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,
  11. Jeremiah 21:1בִּשְׁלֹ֨חַ · sent
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,
  12. Jeremiah 23:21שָׁלַ֥חְתִּי · send
    I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.
  13. Jeremiah 23:32שְׁלַחְתִּ֜ים · who sent them
    “Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.
  14. Jeremiah 23:38וָאֶשְׁלַ֤ח · and I specifically told
    But if you claim, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ then this is what the LORD says: Because you have said, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ and I specifically told you not to make this claim,
  15. Jeremiah 24:5שִׁלַּ֜חְתִּי · I have sent away
    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
  16. Jeremiah 24:10וְשִׁלַּ֣חְתִּי · And I will send
    And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”
  17. Jeremiah 25:4וְשָׁלַח֩ · has sent; וְשָׁלֹ֖חַ · and again
    And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.
  18. Jeremiah 25:9שֹׁלֵ֡חַ · I will summon
    …behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
  19. Jeremiah 25:15שֹׁלֵ֥חַ · send
    This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
  20. Jeremiah 25:16שֹׁלֵ֖חַ · will send
    And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”
  21. Jeremiah 25:17שְׁלָחַ֥נִי · had sent me
    So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,
  22. Jeremiah 25:27שֹׁלֵ֖חַ · will send
    “Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’
  23. Jeremiah 26:5שֹׁלֵ֣חַ · have sent; וְשָׁלֹ֖חַ · and again
    …and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,
  24. Jeremiah 26:12שְׁלָחַ֗נִי · sent me
    But Jeremiah said to all the officials and all the people, “The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.
  25. Jeremiah 26:15שְׁלָחַ֤נִי · has sent me
    But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, upon this city, and upon its residents; for truly the LORD has sent me to speak all these words in your hearing.”
  26. Jeremiah 26:22וַיִּשְׁלַ֞ח · sent
    Then King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt: Elnathan son of Achbor along with some other men.
  27. Jeremiah 27:3וְשִׁלַּחְתָּם֩ · Send
    Send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
  28. Jeremiah 27:15שְׁלַחְתִּים֙ · sent them
    For I have not sent them, declares the LORD, and yet they are prophesying falsely in My name; therefore I will banish you, and you will perish—you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”
  29. Jeremiah 28:9שְׁלָח֥וֹ · sent
    As for the prophet who prophesies peace, only if the word of the prophet comes true will the prophet be recognized as one the LORD has truly sent.”
  30. Jeremiah 28:15שְׁלָחֲךָ֣ · send you
    Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you, but you have persuaded this people to trust in a lie.
  31. Jeremiah 28:16מְשַֽׁלֵּֽחֲךָ֔ · I am about to remove you
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.’”
  32. Jeremiah 29:1שָׁלַ֛ח · sent
    This is the text of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets, and all the others Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
  33. Jeremiah 29:3שָׁלַ֜ח · sent
    The letter was entrusted to Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It stated:
  34. Jeremiah 29:9שְׁלַחְתִּ֖ים · sent them
    For they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD.”
  35. Jeremiah 29:17מְשַׁלֵּ֣חַ · I will send
    …this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.
  36. Jeremiah 29:19שָׁלַ֨חְתִּי · I sent; וְשָׁלֹ֔חַ
    I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”
  37. Jeremiah 29:20שִׁלַּ֥חְתִּי · I have sent away
    So hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
  38. Jeremiah 29:25שָׁלַ֨חְתָּ · have sent out
    …this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:
  39. Jeremiah 29:28שָׁלַ֥ח · he has sent
    For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.’”
  40. Jeremiah 29:31שְׁלַ֤ח · Send; שְׁלַחְתִּ֔יו · send him
    “Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,
  41. Jeremiah 34:9לְ֠שַׁלַּח · should free
    …that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
  42. Jeremiah 34:10לְ֠שַׁלַּח · that they would free; וַיְשַׁלֵּֽחוּ׃ · and released them
    So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,
  43. Jeremiah 34:11שִׁלְּח֖וּ · they had freed
    …but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
  44. Jeremiah 34:14תְּֽשַׁלְּח֡וּ · of you must free
    Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.