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# מִשְׁלַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4916

**sending** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sending [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4916/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁלַח: outstretching place of letting loose Pi. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4916/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] 1. outstretching; 2. place of letting loose:—מ׳ only cstr.: בְּכָל־מ׳ יַד פ׳ in every outstretching of one’s hand, = every understaking, Dt 12:7, 18; 15:10; 23:21; 28:8, 20. לְמ׳ שׁוֹר וּלְמִרְמֶס שֶׂה Is 7:25 (√ Pi. 3 especially Is 32:20).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: (the) undertaking (6); pastureland (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 12:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.12.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.12.7/#tree)

וַאֲכַלְתֶּם־שָׁ֗ם לִפְנֵי֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם וּשְׂמַחְתֶּ֗ם בְּכֹל֙ מִשְׁלַ֣ח יֶדְכֶ֔ם אַתֶּ֖ם וּבָתֵּיכֶ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר בֵּֽרַכְךָ֖ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.eat there before Yahweh God your and you.will.rejoice in every (the).undertaking your.hand your you and households your which he has.blessed.you Yahweh God your

*JPS 1917:* and there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

[Isaiah 7:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.25/#tree)

וְכֹ֣ל הֶהָרִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר בַּמַּעְדֵּר֙ יֵעָ֣דֵר֔וּן לֹֽא־תָב֣וֹא שָׁ֔מָּה יִרְאַ֖ת שָׁמִ֣יר וָשָׁ֑יִת וְהָיָה֙ לְמִשְׁלַ֣ח שׁ֔וֹר וּלְמִרְמַ֖ס שֶֽׂה׃פ

*Word for word:* and all the hills which with the hoe they were.hoed not you.will.go there (to) fear of.thorn\[s\] and bush\[es\] and it.will.become (into) pastureland of.ox\[en\] and.(into) a trampling.place of.sheep

*JPS 1917:* And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns, but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4916.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4916/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).