Sending
מִשְׁלַחStrong’s H4916mishlach (mish-lach)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mishlach is the Hebrew word usually translated “undertaking of”, “sending of” and “pastureland of”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.”
Meaning
- Outstretching
- Outstretching, sending, sending forth
How it's translated
- undertaking of 6
- and sending of 2
- pastureland of 1
- stretching out of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 6
- Esther 2
- Isaiah 2
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 12:18But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
- Deuteronomy 15:10Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
- Deuteronomy 23:20Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 28:8The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
- Deuteronomy 28:20The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
- Esther 9:19Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
Hebrew dictionary
מִשְׁלַח mishlach · sending
outstretching Also means: mish.lo.ach (מִשְׁלוֹחַ "sending" H4916B)
מִשְׁלוֹחַ mishloach · sending
outstretching, sending, sending forth Another spelling of mish.lach (מִשְׁלַח "sending" H4916A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “send” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEND, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive sent.
- In adjective general sense, to throw, cast or thrust; to impel or drive by force to a distance, either with the hand or with an instrument or by other means.
- To cause to be conveyed or transmitted; as, to send letters or dispatches from one country to another.
- To cause to go or pass from place to place; as, to send a messenger from London to Madrid.
- To commission, autorize or direct to go and act.“I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran” Jeremiah 23:21
All definitions and other forms of “send”
- To cause to come or fall; to bestow.“He sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust” Matthew 5:45
- To cause to come or fall; to inflict.
- To propagate; to diffuse.
- To emit; as flowers send forth their fragrance.
SEND, verb intransitive
To dispatch an agent or messenger for some purpose.
- “See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head?” 2 Kings 6:32
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.