שָׁלַךְ shâlak — to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as adventure, cast (away, down, forth, off, out), hurl, pluck, throw.
a primitive root; to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively).
shâlak in each stem
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 45Perfect (qatal) 21Imperfect (yiqtol) 15Imperative 10Sequential perfect (weqatal) 8Infinitive construct 4Participle (active) 3Cohortative 2Jussive 2Infinitive absolute 2
And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
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.
Hoph'al
Participle (passive) 6Perfect (qatal) 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1
The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.
And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.
And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
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 ›