Shalakh שָׁלַךְ

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Shalakh
שָׁלַךְ
Transliterationshalakh
Strong's numberH7993
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechverb
Glossto throw
Occurrences125 in 121 verses
Most frequent in2 Kings (15)

Shalakh (Hebrew שָׁלַךְ, Strong's H7993) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to throw”. It occurs 125 times in 121 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

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 the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVcast (76), out (15), down (11), away (11), forth (4), off (2), hurl (1), adventured (1), thrown (1), threwest (1), plucked (1), castest (1)
BSBthrew (13), throw (7), cast (6), thrown (5), cast away (4), throw him (3), throw it down (2), cast down (2), i will cast (2), dropped (2), lying (2), he finally banished (2), and 72 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Shalakh, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

2 Chronicles

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Ecclesiastes

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Daniel

Joel

Amos

Jonah

Micah

Nahum

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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