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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 34:14וְשִׁלַּחְתּ֥וֹ · but then you must let him go
    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.
  2. Jeremiah 34:16שִׁלַּחְתֶּ֥ם · you had set
    But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.
  3. Jeremiah 35:15וָאֶשְׁלַ֣ח · I have sent; וְשָׁלֹ֣חַ׀ · and again
    Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
  4. Jeremiah 36:14וַיִּשְׁלְח֨וּ · sent
    Then all the officials sent word to Baruch through Jehudi son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, saying, “Bring the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people, and come here.” So Baruch son of Neriah took the scroll and went to them.
  5. Jeremiah 36:21וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח · sent
    Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who were standing beside him.
  6. Jeremiah 37:3וַיִּשְׁלַח֩ · sent
    Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet with the message, “Please pray to the LORD our God for us!”
  7. Jeremiah 37:7הַשֹּׁלֵ֧חַ · who sent
    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to help you, will go back to its own land of Egypt.
  8. Jeremiah 37:17וַיִּשְׁלַח֩ · sent for [Jeremiah]
    Later, King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and received him in his palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there a word from the LORD?” “There is,” Jeremiah replied. “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”
  9. Jeremiah 38:6וַיְשַׁלְּח֥וּ · They lowered
    So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
  10. Jeremiah 38:11וַיְשַׁלְּחֵ֧ם · and lowered them
    Then Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the king’s palace, to a place below the storehouse. From there he took old rags and worn-out clothes and lowered them with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.
  11. Jeremiah 38:14וַיִּשְׁלַ֞ח · sent for
    Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance to the house of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” said the king to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.”
  12. Jeremiah 39:13וַיִּשְׁלַ֞ח
    So Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, Nebushazban the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the captains of the king of Babylon
  13. Jeremiah 39:14וַיִּשְׁלְחוּ֩ · brought
    …had Jeremiah brought from the courtyard of the guard, and they turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So Jeremiah remained among his own people.
  14. Jeremiah 40:1שַׁלַּ֣ח · had released
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.
  15. Jeremiah 40:5וַֽיְשַׁלְּחֵֽהוּ׃ · and released him
    But before Jeremiah turned to go, Nebuzaradan added, “Return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people, or go anywhere else that seems right.” Then the captain of the guard gave him a ration and a gift and released him.
  16. Jeremiah 40:14שָׁלַח֙ · has sent
    …and said to him, “Are you aware that Baalis king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.
  17. Jeremiah 42:5יִֽשְׁלָחֲךָ֜ · sends you
    Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act upon every word that the LORD your God sends you to tell us.
  18. Jeremiah 42:6שֹׁלְחִ֥ים · are sending
    Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God!”
  19. Jeremiah 42:9שְׁלַחְתֶּ֤ם · you sent
    Jeremiah told them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition:
  20. Jeremiah 42:20שְׁלַחְתֶּ֣ם · by sending
    For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, and as for all that the LORD our God says, tell it to us and we will do it.’
  21. Jeremiah 42:21שְׁלָחַ֥נִי · He has sent me
    For I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in all He has sent me to tell you.
  22. Jeremiah 43:1שְׁלָח֛וֹ · had sent him
    When Jeremiah had finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their God—everything that the LORD had sent him to say—
  23. Jeremiah 43:2שְׁלָחֲךָ֞ · sent you
    Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to reside there.’
  24. Jeremiah 43:10שֹׁלֵ֙חַ֙ · I will send for
    Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.
  25. Jeremiah 44:4וָאֶשְׁלַ֤ח · Yet I sent; וְשָׁלֹ֖חַ
    Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
  26. Jeremiah 48:12וְשִׁלַּחְתִּי־ · when I will send
    Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him wanderers, who will pour him out. They will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.
  27. Jeremiah 49:14שָׁל֑וּחַ · has been sent
    I have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent to the nations: “Assemble yourselves to march against her! Rise up for battle!”
  28. Jeremiah 49:37וְשִׁלַּחְתִּ֤י · I will send out
    So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.
  29. Jeremiah 50:33שַׁלְּחָֽם׃ · to release them
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “The sons of Israel are oppressed, and the sons of Judah as well. All their captors hold them fast, refusing to release them.
  30. Jeremiah 51:2וְשִׁלַּחְתִּ֨י · I will send
    I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.
  31. Lamentations 1:13שָֽׁלַח־ · He sent
    He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
  32. Ezekiel 2:3שׁוֹלֵ֨חַ · am sending
    “Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me.
  33. Ezekiel 2:4שׁוֹלֵ֥חַ · am sending
    They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’
  34. Ezekiel 2:9שְׁלוּחָ֣ה · reaching out
    Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and in it was a scroll,
  35. Ezekiel 3:5שָׁל֑וּחַ · being sent
    For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
  36. Ezekiel 3:6שְׁלַחְתִּ֔יךָ · if I had sent you
    …not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
  37. Ezekiel 5:16בְּֽשַׁלְּחִ֡י · When I shower; אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח · I will send
    When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.
  38. Ezekiel 5:17וְשִׁלַּחְתִּ֣י · I will send
    I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”
  39. Ezekiel 7:3וְשִׁלַּחְתִּ֤י · and I will unleash
    The end is now upon you, and I will unleash My anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.
  40. Ezekiel 8:3וַיִּשְׁלַח֙ · He stretched out
    He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.
  41. Ezekiel 8:17שֹׁלְחִ֥ים · putting
    “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!
  42. Ezekiel 10:7וַיִּשְׁלַח֩ · reached out
    Then one of the cherubim reached out his hand and took some of the fire that was among them. And he put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who received it and went out.
  43. Ezekiel 13:6שְׁלָחָ֑ם · send them
    They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ when the LORD did not send them; yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.
  44. Ezekiel 13:20וְשִׁלַּחְתִּי֙ · So I will free
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: See, I am against the magic charms with which you ensnare souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms. So I will free the souls you have ensnared like birds.
  45. Ezekiel 14:13וְהִשְׁלַחְתִּי־ · to send
    “Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,
  46. Ezekiel 14:19אֲשַׁלַּ֖ח · if I send
    Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,
  47. Ezekiel 14:21שִׁלַּ֖חְתִּי · I send
    For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?