Midvash

שָׁלַךְshâlak

Hiph`il: throw, fling, cast (Amos 8:3; Jeremiah 51:63; Amos 4:3)

Pronunciation: shaw-lak · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7993

Meanings

1. throw, cast, usually human subject

c. throw away (Judges 15:17; 2 Kings 7:15; Ezekiel 20:7)

d. cast off, shed (Job 15:33)

e. cast down (Daniel 8:7; Daniel 8:12; 2 Chronicles 25:12)

f. cast, thy lot. (Psalms 55:23)

2. ׳ י subject

a. cast (Joshua 10:11; Job 27:22; Psalms 60:10)

c. cast down (Lamentations 2:1; Psalms 102:11)

3. phrases (Joshua 18:8; Joshua 18:10; Micah 2:5)

Hoph`al

1. be thrown, cast (2 Samuel 20:21; 1 Kings 13:24; 1 Kings 13:25)

2. be cast forth, out (Isaiah 34:3; Isaiah 14:19; Ezekiel 16:5)

3. be cast down (Ezekiel 19:12; Daniel 8:11)

4. be cast (Psalms 22:11)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 125 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 21:15 When the water was gone, she put the boy in the shade of a bush.
  • Genesis 37:20 “Come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns. We can tell our father, ‘A wild animal has eaten him.’ Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams!”
  • Genesis 37:22 “Why should we shed any blood? Let’s just throw him into this empty cistern here in the wilderness. Then he’ll die without our laying a hand on him.” Reuben was secretly planning to rescue Joseph and return him to his father.
  • Genesis 37:24 Then they grabbed him and threw him into the cistern. Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.
  • Exodus 1:22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Throw every newborn Hebrew boy into the Nile River. But you may let the girls live.”
  • Exodus 4:3 “Throw it down on the ground,” the Lord told him. So Moses threw down the staff, and it turned into a snake! Moses jumped back.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).