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To throw

שָׁלַךְStrong’s H7993

shalakh (sha-lakh)

Appears in 121 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Shalakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “threw”, “throw” and “thrown down”. It appears in 121 verses of the Old Testament.

“And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.”
Daniel 8:7 KJV
Meaning
  1. To throw, cast, hurl, fling(Hiphil) · (Hophal)
How it's translated
  • and he threw 16
  • and they threw 10
  • he threw 4
  • and he will throw 3
  • and i threw 3
  • thrown down 3
  • and she threw 2
  • throw it 2

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

Where it's used most
  • 2 Kings 15
  • Jeremiah 14
  • Psalms 10
  • Ezekiel 10
  • Exodus 9
  • Joshua 5

26 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 121 verses, by book
Leviticus 2
1:1614:40
Deuteronomy 3
9:179:2129:28
Nehemiah 3
9:119:2613:8
Ecclesiastes 2
3:53:6
Lamentations 1
2:1
Daniel 3
8:78:118:12
Joel 1
1:7
Amos 2
4:38:3
Jonah 1
2:3
Micah 2
2:57:19
Nahum 1
3:6
Zechariah 2
5:811:13
Hebrew dictionary

שָׁלַךְ shalakh · to throw

1) to throw, cast, hurl, fling 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to throw, cast, throw away, cast off, shed, cast down 1a2) to cast (lots) (fig) 1b) (Hophal) 1b1) to be thrown, be cast 1b2) to be cast forth or out 1b3) to be cast down 1b4) to be cast (metaph)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “throw” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

THROW, verb transitive

preterit tense threw; participle passive thrown. [Gr. to run; Latin trochilus.]

  1. Properly, to hurl; to whirl; to fling or cast in a winding direction.
  2. To fling or cast in any manner; to propel; to send; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine.
  3. To wind; as, to throw silk.
  4. To turn; as, to throw balls in a lathe.
All definitions and other forms of “throw”
  1. To venture at dice.
  2. To cast; to divest or strip one's self of; to put off; as, a serpent throws his skin.
  3. To cast; to send.
  4. To put on; to spread carelessly.
  5. To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
  6. To cast; to drive by violence; as a vessel or sailors thrown upon a rock.
  7. To bestow without a compensation.
  8. To reject; as, to throw away a good book, or a good offer.
  9. To bring down from a high station; to depress.
  10. To put in; to deposit with others; also, to give up or relinquish.
  11. To reject; to discard; as, to throw off all sense of shame; to throw off a dependent.
  12. To utter carelessly; to speak; as, to throw out insinuations or observations.
  13. To exert; to bring forth into act.
  14. To distance; to leave behind.
  15. To exclude; to reject.
  16. To resign angrily.
  17. To discharge from the stomach.

THROW, verb intransitive

To perform the act of throwing.

  1. To cast dice.

THROW, noun

The act of hurling or flinging; a cast; a driving or propelling from the hand or from an engine.

  1. A cast of dice; and the manner in which dice fall when cast; as a good throw None but a fool hazards all upon one throw
  2. The distance which a missile is or may be thrown; as a stone's throw
  3. A stroke; a blow.
  4. Effort; violent sally.
  5. The agony of travail. [See Throe.]
  6. A turner's lathe. [Local.]

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.