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Strong's #7971: shalach (pronounced shaw-lakh')

a primitive root; to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications):--X any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, X 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).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ

shâlach

1) to send, send away, let go, stretch out

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to send

1a2) to stretch out, extend, direct

1a3) to send away

1a4) to let loose

1b) (Niphal) to be sent

1c) (Piel)

1c1) to send off or away or out or forth, dismiss, give over, cast out

1c2) to let go, set free

1c3) to shoot forth (of branches)

1c4) to let down

1c5) to shoot

1d) (Pual) to be sent off, be put away, be divorced, be impelled

1e) (Hiphil) to send

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 848 times:

Deuteronomy 34:11: "and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh,"
Joshua 1:16: "thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go."
Joshua 2:1: "And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men"
Joshua 2:3: "And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men"
Joshua 2:21: "According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet"
Joshua 6:17: "the messengers that we sent."
Joshua 6:25: "the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho."
Joshua 7:2: "And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside"
Joshua 7:22: "So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent,"
Joshua 8:3: "mighty men of valor, and sent them away by night."
Joshua 8:9: "Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel"
Joshua 10:3: "Wherefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron,"
Joshua 10:6: "And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal,"
Joshua 11:1: "king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon,"
Joshua 14:7: "when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out"
Joshua 14:11: "as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now,"
Joshua 18:4: "out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe"
Joshua 22:6: "So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents."
Joshua 22:7: "westward. And when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he blessed"
Joshua 22:13: "And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children"
Joshua 24:5: " I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which"
Joshua 24:9: "arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor"
Joshua 24:12: " And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before"
Joshua 24:28: "So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance."
Judges 1:8: "it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire."
Judges 1:25: "the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family."
Judges 2:6: "And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man"
Judges 3:15: "left-handed: and by him the children of Israel sent a present"
Judges 3:18: "to offer the present, he sent away the people that bore the present."
Judges 3:21: "And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger"
Judges 4:6: " And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali,"
Judges 5:15: "even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben"
Judges 5:26: " She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera,"
Judges 6:8: "That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus"
Judges 6:14: "from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent"
Judges 6:21: "Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand,"
Judges 6:35: " And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after"
Judges 6:35: "also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali;"
Judges 7:8: "victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent,"
Judges 7:24: "And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down"
Judges 9:23: "Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem;"
Judges 9:31: " And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal"
Judges 11:12: "And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying,"
Judges 11:14: "And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children"
Judges 11:17: "Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee,"
Judges 11:17: "would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would"
Judges 11:19: "And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king"
Judges 11:28: "the words of Jephthah which he sent"
Judges 11:38: "And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went"
Judges 12:9: "sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters"









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