Mishlôwach — H4916

Definition

masculine noun

a sending out, i.e. (abstractly) presentation (favorable), or seizure (unfavorable); also (concretely) a place of dismissal, or a business to be discharged

1. outstretching, sending, sending forth
2. outstretching, undertaking (that to which one stretches out the hand), place of letting or turning loose, pasture (place where animals are let free)

Usually translated as

sending, to lay, to put, to set

Origin

or mishlôach; also mishlâch; from H7971

• Derived from Shâlach (H7971)

Greek equivalents

• érgon (G2041)

Occurrences

Mishlôwach occurs 10 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (6), Esther (2), Isaiah (2)

• Deuteronomy 12:7 — And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put (מִשְׁלַ֣ח) your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
• Deuteronomy 12:18 — But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest (מִשְׁלַ֥ח) thine hands unto.
• Deuteronomy 15:10 — Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest (מִשְׁלַ֥ח) thine hand unto.
• Deuteronomy 23:20 — Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest (מִשְׁלַ֣ח) thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
• Deuteronomy 28:8 — The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest (מִשְׁלַ֣ח) thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• Deuteronomy 28:20 — The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest (מִשְׁלַ֥ח) thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
• Esther 9:19 — Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending (וּמִשְׁל֥וֹחַ) portions one to another.
• Esther 9:22 — As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending (וּמִשְׁל֤וֹחַ) portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
• Isaiah 7:25 — And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth (לְמִשְׁלַ֣ח) of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
• Isaiah 11:14 — But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay (מִשְׁל֣וֹח) their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.