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# שִׁלּוּחִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7964

**sending away** — used 3 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 away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7964/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁלּוּחִים: pl. sending away, parting gift [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7964/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\]pl. sending away, parting gift;— אַחַר שִׁלּוּחֶיהָ Ex 18:2 (J) after she had been sent away. שִׁלֻּחִים 1 K 9:16 he gave (city) as parting gift (i.e. dowry) to his daughter; cf. fig. שִׁלּוּחִים Mi 1:14 thou shalt give a parting gift (= say farewell to, lose) Morešeth of Gath.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: dismissal(s) (1); dowri(es) (1); parting gifts (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 18:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.18.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.18.2/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֗ח יִתְרוֹ֙ חֹתֵ֣ן מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֶת־צִפֹּרָ֖ה אֵ֣שֶׁת מֹשֶׁ֑ה אַחַ֖ר שִׁלּוּחֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and he.had.taken Jethro the.father-in-law of.Moses (et) Zipporah the.wife of.Moses after dismissal(s) her

*JPS 1917:* And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

[Micah 1:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.1.14/#tree)

לָכֵן֙ תִּתְּנִ֣י שִׁלּוּחִ֔ים עַ֖ל מוֹרֶ֣שֶׁת גַּ֑ת מוֹרֶ֣שֶׁת גַּ֑ת בָּתֵּ֤י אַכְזִיב֙ לְאַכְזָ֔ב לְמַלְכֵ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* therefore you.will.give parting.gifts to Moresheth Gath the.houses of.Aczib \[will become\].(into).a.deceitful.thing to the.kings of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Therefore shalt thou give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing unto the kings of Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7964.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7964/): 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).