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To send

שָׁלַחStrong’s H7971

shalach (sha-lach)

Appears in 790 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Shalach is the Hebrew word usually translated “sent”, “send” and “has sent me”. It appears in 790 verses of the Old Testament.

“And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.”
Daniel 10:11 KJV
Meaning
  1. To send, send away, let go, stretch out(Qal) · (Niphal) to be sent · (Piel) · (Pual) to be sent off, be put away, be divorced, be impelled · (Hiphil) to send
How it's translated
  • and he sent 170
  • he sent 42
  • and they sent 26
  • send 21
  • he has sent me 19
  • and he stretched out 17
  • and i will send 17
  • about to send 13

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Jeremiah 79
  • 2 Kings 66
  • Exodus 65
  • Genesis 64
  • 1 Samuel 62
  • 2 Samuel 56

34 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 790 verses, by book
Ezra 1
8:16
Ecclesiastes 1
11:1
Song of Solomon 1
5:4
Lamentations 1
1:13
Daniel 2
10:1111:42
Hosea 2
5:138:14
Obadiah 3
1:11:71:13
Micah 1
6:4
Haggai 1
1:12
Hebrew dictionary

שָׁלַח shalach · to send

: depart/send 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

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.

  1. 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.
  2. To cause to be conveyed or transmitted; as, to send letters or dispatches from one country to another.
  3. To cause to go or pass from place to place; as, to send a messenger from London to Madrid.
  4. 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”
  1. To cause to come or fall; to bestow.“He sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust” Matthew 5:45
  2. To cause to come or fall; to inflict.
  3. To propagate; to diffuse.
  4. To emit; as flowers send forth their fragrance.

SEND, verb intransitive

To dispatch an agent or messenger for some purpose.

  1. “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.