Strong H7971H7971Kשָׁלַח

to send: reach

One of the 7 senses of Strong H7971

Transliteration
shâlach
Pronunciation
shaw-lakh'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

: reach/put/send(hand)
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

General definition

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).

In the Bible

Strong H7971K appears in 61 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • put29
  • stretch14
  • lie7
  • lay5
  • putteth2
  • send2
  • go1
  • layeth1
  • yea1

First verses

  1. Genesis 3:22
    And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
  2. Genesis 8:9
    But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
  3. Genesis 19:10
    But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
  4. Genesis 22:10
    And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
  5. Genesis 22:12
    And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
  6. Genesis 37:22
    And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
  7. Genesis 48:14
    And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
  8. Exodus 3:20
    And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
  9. Exodus 4:4
    And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
  10. Exodus 9:15
    For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
  11. Exodus 22:8
    If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods.
  12. Exodus 22:11
    Then shall an oath of the Lord be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
  13. Exodus 24:11
    And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
  14. Deuteronomy 25:11
    When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
  15. Judges 3:21
    And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
  16. 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, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
  17. Judges 6:21
    Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.
  18. Judges 15:15
    And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
  19. 1 Samuel 14:27
    But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
  20. 1 Samuel 17:49
    And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
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