שָׁלַךְ shalakh

Hebrew word for “to throw” · Strong’s H7993 · used 125 times in 121 verses

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Meaning

1) to throw, cast, hurl, fling;

How it is translated

Glosses given for shalakh in context, with how often each is used:

• threw 46
• will throw 12
• throw 8
• thrown down 5
• have thrown 4
• throw away 4
• threw down 3
• cast 3
• thrown out 3
• us throw 2
• will throw away 2
• threw away 2

Where it is used

Also in 14 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 37 (3), Exodus 7 (3), 2 Samuel 20 (3), 1 Kings 13 (3), Daniel 8 (3), Exodus 32 (2), Numbers 35 (2), Deuteronomy 9 (2), Joshua 10 (2), Joshua 18 (2)

Forms

• וישׁלך 18
• השׁליכו 8
• וישׁליכו 7
• השׁליך 6
• וישׁלכו 5
• אשׁליך 5
• ותשׁלך 4
• והשׁלך 4
• והשׁליך 4
• משׁלכת 4

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shalakh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֶבֶן even “stone” 11
• עַד ad “till” 14
• בּוֹר bor “pit” 7
• נְבֵלָה nevelah “carcass” 6
• כָּלָה kalah “to end” 7
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 10
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 11
• שָׁם sham “there” 9
• מִן־ min “from” 10
• מַי mayim “water” 8
• אֵצֶל etsel “beside” 5
• חוּץ chuts “outside” 6

Key verses

The verses using shalakh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Kings 14:9 — But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me…
• 2 Kings 13:23 — And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would…
• 2 Chronicles 7:20 — Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my…
• Nehemiah 9:26 — Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn…
• Psalms 51:11 — Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
• Isaiah 2:20 — In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
• Isaiah 38:17 — Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy…
• Jeremiah 38:6 — Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with…
• Lamentations 2:1 — How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his…
• Ezekiel 18:31 — Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
• Daniel 8:11 — Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
• Micah 7:19 — He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.