Definition

a sending out, i.e. (abstractly) presentation (favorable), or seizure (unfavorable); also (concretely) a place of dismissal, or a business to be discharged

Etymology

or מִשְׁלֹחַ; also מִשְׁלָח; from H7971 (שָׁלַח);

Word family

• שָׁלַח shâlach

How the KJV renders it

• to lay
• to put
• sending (forth)
• to set

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.