Biblica Analytica

מִשְׁלַח

mish.lach (H4916A)

sending

7 verses 2 books OT 7 / NT 0
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# מִשְׁלַח (Mishlag): A Term for Sending The Hebrew word *mishlag* (H4916A) denotes the act or concept of "sending." As a noun form derived from the root שׁלח (to send), it carries the fundamental meaning of dispatching or transmitting something or someone from one place to another. The word appears seven times throughout the biblical text, suggesting it served a specific but not predominant role in Hebrew vocabulary for expressing this idea. The limited frequency of *mishlag* in biblical literature indicates it was one among several terms available to Hebrew speakers for describing the action of sending. While other forms and related words might have been more commonly used, this particular noun form appears to have been selected in particular contexts to convey the concept of sending. Without access to the specific biblical passages where it occurs, we can note that its seven occurrences represent moments where the text required an explicit noun rather than a verbal form to emphasize the act of sending itself.

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Deuteronomy 12:7

There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 12:18

but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.

Deuteronomy 15:10

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

Deuteronomy 23:20

You may charge a foreigner interest; but you shall not your brother interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

Deuteronomy 28:8

Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 28:20

Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

Isaiah 7:25

All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.”