שָׁלַח shâlach — to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
Translated in the KJV as × any wise, appoint, bring, cast (away, out), conduct, × earnestly, forsake, give, grow long, lay, leave.
a primitive root; to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications).
shâlach in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 245Perfect (qatal) 156Imperfect (yiqtol) 46Participle (active) 31Imperative 30Infinitive construct 22Infinitive absolute 8Sequential perfect (weqatal) 7Participle (passive) 7Cohortative 6Jussive 5
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:
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.
But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 59Imperfect (yiqtol) 55Perfect (qatal) 47Sequential perfect (weqatal) 36Infinitive construct 32Imperative 19Participle (active) 14Infinitive absolute 3Cohortative 2Jussive 1
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 6Participle (passive) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.
And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
Hiph'il
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Participle (active) 1Infinitive construct 1
And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
In those days the Lord began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
Niph'al
Infinitive absolute 1
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›