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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 Samuel 10:16וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח · sent
    Hadadezer sent messengers to bring more Arameans from beyond the Euphrates, and they came to Helam with Shobach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.
  2. 2 Samuel 11:1וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח · sent out
    In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.
  3. 2 Samuel 11:3וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח · sent
    So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
  4. 2 Samuel 11:4וַיִּשְׁלַח֩ · sent
    Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.
  5. 2 Samuel 11:5וַתִּשְׁלַח֙ · and sent word
    And the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
  6. 2 Samuel 11:6וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח · sent orders; שְׁלַ֣ח · Send; וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח · sent
    At this, David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.
  7. 2 Samuel 11:12אֲשַׁלְּחֶ֑ךָּ · I will send you back
    “Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
  8. 2 Samuel 11:14וַיִּשְׁלַ֖ח · and sent
    The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
  9. 2 Samuel 11:18וַיִּשְׁלַ֖ח · sent
    Joab sent to David a full account of the battle
  10. 2 Samuel 11:22שְׁלָח֖וֹ · had sent him to say
    So the messenger set out and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to say.
  11. 2 Samuel 11:27וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח
    And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
  12. 2 Samuel 12:1וַיִּשְׁלַ֧ח · sent
    Then the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.
  13. 2 Samuel 12:25וַיִּשְׁלַ֗ח · and sent
    …and sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.
  14. 2 Samuel 12:27וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח · sent
    Then Joab sent messengers to David to say, “I have fought against Rabbah and have captured the water supply of the city.
  15. 2 Samuel 13:7וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח · sent
    Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”
  16. 2 Samuel 13:16לְשַׁלְּחֵ֑נִי · sending me away
    “No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.
  17. 2 Samuel 13:17שִׁלְחוּ־ · Throw
    Instead, he called to his attendant and said, “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”
  18. 2 Samuel 13:27וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח · so [the king] sent
    But Absalom urged him, so the king sent Amnon and the rest of his sons.
  19. 2 Samuel 14:2וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח · sent
    So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.
  20. 2 Samuel 14:29וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח · sent; לִשְׁלֹ֤חַ · to send; וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח · So [Absalom] sent
    Then he sent for Joab to send him to the king, but Joab refused to come to him. So Absalom sent a second time, but Joab still would not come.
  21. 2 Samuel 14:32שָׁלַ֣חְתִּי · I sent; וְאֶשְׁלְחָה֩ · I want to send
    “Look,” said Absalom, “I sent for you and said, ‘Come here. I want to send you to the king to ask: Why have I come back from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.’ So now, let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”
  22. 2 Samuel 15:5וְשָׁלַ֧ח · Absalom would reach out
    Also, when anyone approached to bow down to him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him, and kiss him.
  23. 2 Samuel 15:10וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח · sent
    Then Absalom sent spies throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: “When you hear the sound of the horn, you are to say, ‘Absalom reigns in Hebron!’”
  24. 2 Samuel 15:12וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח · sent for
    While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, to come from his hometown of Giloh. So the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom’s following kept increasing.
  25. 2 Samuel 15:36וּשְׁלַחְתֶּ֤ם · Send
    Indeed, their two sons, Ahimaaz son of Zadok and Jonathan son of Abiathar, are there with them. Send them to me with everything you hear.”
  26. 2 Samuel 17:16שִׁלְח֣וּ · send
    Now send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but be sure to cross over. Otherwise the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.’”
  27. 2 Samuel 18:2וַיְשַׁלַּ֨ח · sent out
    He sent out the troops, a third under Joab, a third under Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the troops, “I will surely march out with you as well.”
  28. 2 Samuel 18:12אֶשְׁלַ֥ח · raise
    The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’
  29. 2 Samuel 18:29לִ֠שְׁלֹחַ · sent
    The king asked, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And Ahimaaz replied, “When Joab sent the king’s servant and your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I do not know what it was.”
  30. 2 Samuel 19:11שָׁ֠לַח · sent this message
    Then King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to restore the king to his palace, since the talk of all Israel has reached the king at his quarters?
  31. 2 Samuel 19:14וַֽיִּשְׁלְחוּ֙ · and they sent
    So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”
  32. 2 Samuel 19:31לְשַׁלְּח֖וֹ · and send him on his way
    Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim to cross the Jordan with the king and send him on his way from there.
  33. 2 Samuel 22:15וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח · He shot
    He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.
  34. 2 Samuel 22:17יִשְׁלַ֥ח · He reached down
    He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
  35. 2 Samuel 24:13שֹׁלְחִ֖י · to Him who sent me
    So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
  36. 2 Samuel 24:16וַיִּשְׁלַח֩ · stretched
    But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
  37. 1 Kings 1:44וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח · has sent
    And with Solomon, the king has sent Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, and they have set him on the king’s mule.
  38. 1 Kings 1:53וַיִּשְׁלַ֞ח · summoned [Adonijah]
    So King Solomon summoned Adonijah down from the altar, and he came and bowed down before King Solomon, who said to him, “Go to your home.”
  39. 1 Kings 2:25וַיִּשְׁלַח֙ · gave orders
    So King Solomon gave orders to Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he struck down Adonijah and he died.
  40. 1 Kings 2:29וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח · sent
    It was reported to King Solomon: “Joab has fled to the tent of the LORD and is now beside the altar.” So Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, strike him down!”
  41. 1 Kings 2:36וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח · summoned
    Then the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Build a house for yourself in Jerusalem and live there, but do not go anywhere else.
  42. 1 Kings 2:42וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח · summoned
    …the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the LORD and warn you, ‘On the day you leave and go elsewhere, know for sure that you will die’? And you told me, ‘The sentence is fair; I will comply.’
  43. 1 Kings 5:1וַ֠יִּשְׁלַח · he sent
    Now when Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king in his father’s place, he sent envoys to Solomon; for Hiram had always been a friend of David.
  44. 1 Kings 5:2וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח · relayed
    And Solomon relayed this message to Hiram:
  45. 1 Kings 5:8וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח · sent
    Then Hiram sent a reply to Solomon, saying: “I have received your message; I will do all you desire regarding the cedar and cypress timber.