Strong’s H7971 · Hebrew

שָׁלַח
shâlach
shaw-lakh'

Definition

to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • any wise
  • appoint
  • bring (on the way)
  • cast (away
  • out)
  • conduct
  • earnestly
  • forsake
  • give (up)
  • grow long
  • lay
  • leave
  • let depart (down
  • go
  • loose)
  • push away
  • put (away
  • forth
  • in
  • reach forth
  • send (away
  • set
  • shoot (forth
  • sow
  • spread
  • stretch forth (out)

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.