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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).

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

847 total
  1. Genesis 3:22יִשְׁלַ֣ח · he reach out
    Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
  2. Genesis 3:23וַֽיְשַׁלְּחֵ֛הוּ · banished him
    Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
  3. Genesis 8:7וַיְשַׁלַּ֖ח · and sent out
    …and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
  4. Genesis 8:8וַיְשַׁלַּ֥ח · Then [Noah] sent out
    Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
  5. Genesis 8:9וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח · So he reached out
    But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.
  6. Genesis 8:10שַׁלַּ֥ח · sent out
    Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
  7. Genesis 8:12וַיְשַׁלַּח֙ · and sent out
    And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
  8. Genesis 12:20וַֽיְשַׁלְּח֥וּ · and they sent him away
    Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.
  9. Genesis 18:16לְשַׁלְּחָֽם׃ · to see them off
    When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.
  10. Genesis 19:10וַיִּשְׁלְח֤וּ · reached out
    But the men inside reached out, pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
  11. Genesis 19:13וַיְשַׁלְּחֵ֥נוּ · has sent us
    …because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it.”
  12. Genesis 19:29וַיְשַׁלַּ֤ח · and He brought
    So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
  13. Genesis 20:2וַיִּשְׁלַ֗ח · brought
    Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
  14. Genesis 21:14וַֽיְשַׁלְּחֶ֑הָ
    Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
  15. Genesis 22:10וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח · reached out
    Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
  16. Genesis 22:12תִּשְׁלַ֤ח · lay
    “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
  17. Genesis 24:7יִשְׁלַ֤ח · will send
    The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.
  18. Genesis 24:40יִשְׁלַ֨ח · will send
    And he told me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.
  19. Genesis 24:54שַׁלְּחֻ֥נִי · Send me on my way
    Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.”
  20. Genesis 24:56שַׁלְּח֕וּנִי · Send me on my way
    But he replied, “Do not delay me, since the LORD has made my journey a success. Send me on my way so that I may go to my master.”
  21. Genesis 24:59וַֽיְשַׁלְּח֛וּ · So they sent
    So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.
  22. Genesis 25:6וַֽיְשַׁלְּחֵ֞ם · and sent them away
    But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
  23. Genesis 26:27וַתְּשַׁלְּח֖וּנִי · and sent me away
    “Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”
  24. Genesis 26:29וַנְּשַׁלֵּֽחֲךָ֖ · sending you on your way
    …that you will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have done only good to you, sending you on your way in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”
  25. Genesis 26:31וַיְשַׁלְּחֵ֣ם · sent them on their way
    And they got up early the next morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.
  26. Genesis 27:42וַתִּשְׁלַ֞ח · she sent for
    When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.
  27. Genesis 27:45וְשָׁלַחְתִּ֖י · Then I will send for you
    …until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
  28. Genesis 28:5וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח · sent
    So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
  29. Genesis 28:6וְשִׁלַּ֤ח · and sent
    Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
  30. Genesis 30:25שַׁלְּחֵ֙נִי֙ · Send me on my way
    Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.
  31. Genesis 31:4וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח · sent word
    So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,
  32. Genesis 31:27וָֽאֲשַׁלֵּחֲךָ֛ · I would have sent you away
    Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
  33. Genesis 31:42שִׁלַּחְתָּ֑נִי · you would have sent me away
    If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
  34. Genesis 32:3וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח · sent
    Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
  35. Genesis 32:5וָֽאֶשְׁלְחָה֙ · I have sent
    I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”
  36. Genesis 32:18שְׁלוּחָ֔ה · sent
    …then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And behold, Jacob is behind us.’”
  37. Genesis 32:26שַׁלְּחֵ֔נִי · Let me go; אֲשַֽׁלֵּחֲךָ֔ · let you go
    Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
  38. Genesis 37:13וְאֶשְׁלָחֲךָ֣ · I am sending
    Israel said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.
  39. Genesis 37:14וַיִּשְׁלָחֵ֙הוּ֙ · So he sent him off
    Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
  40. Genesis 37:22תִּשְׁלְחוּ־ · lay
    “Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.
  41. Genesis 37:32וַֽיְשַׁלְּח֞וּ · They sent
    They sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe or not.”
  42. Genesis 38:17אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח · will send you; שָׁלְחֶֽךָ׃ · you send it
    “I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”
  43. Genesis 38:20וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח · sent
    Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.
  44. Genesis 38:23שָׁלַ֙חְתִּי֙ · I did send her
    “Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”
  45. Genesis 38:25שָׁלְחָ֤ה · sent
    As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
  46. Genesis 41:8וַיִּשְׁלַ֗ח · so he summoned
    In the morning his spirit was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.
  47. Genesis 41:14וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח · sent for
    So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.
  48. Genesis 42:4שָׁלַ֥ח · send
    But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”