שָׁלַךְ
sha.lakh
to throw
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word שָׁלַךְ (sha.lakh) is a verb that means "to throw." Its semantic domain is Physical Action, indicating that it is primarily concerned with physical movement or action. This word is used 125 times in the Bible, demonstrating its significance and importance in the Hebrew language. The range of usage for שָׁלַךְ is quite broad, encompassing various contexts such as throwing objects (e.g., stones, arrows), casting lots, and even casting out demons. This versatility suggests that the word is a fundamental concept in the Hebrew language, used to describe a wide range of physical actions that involve throwing or casting something. The frequency and spread of usage for שָׁלַךְ in the Bible indicate its importance in Hebrew thought and culture. Its use in various contexts highlights the significance of physical action and movement in the Hebrew worldview, and its frequency suggests that throwing or casting was a common and meaningful activity in ancient Israelite life.
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Occurrences in Scripture
125 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had filled it.
2 Chronicles 25:12The children of Judah carried away ten thousand alive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and threw them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.
2 Chronicles 30:14They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles 33:15He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
Nehemiah 9:11You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Nehemiah 9:26“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
Nehemiah 13:8It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.
Job 15:33He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
Job 18:7The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.
Job 27:22For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
Job 29:17I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
Psalms 2:3“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”
Psalms 22:10I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.
Psalms 50:17since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
Psalms 51:11Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.
Psalms 55:22Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
Psalms 60:8Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my sandal on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia.”
Psalms 71:9Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.
Psalms 102:10because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.
Psalms 108:9Moab is my wash pot. I will toss my sandal on Edom. I will shout over Philistia.”
Psalms 147:17He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?
Ecclesiastes 3:5a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Ecclesiastes 3:6a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
Isaiah 38:17Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
Isaiah 2:20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,
Isaiah 14:19But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.
Isaiah 19:8The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.
Isaiah 34:3Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up. The mountains will melt in their blood.
Jeremiah 7:15I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim.
Jeremiah 7:15I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim.
Jeremiah 7:29Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Jeremiah 9:19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ”
Jeremiah 14:16The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them.
Jeremiah 22:19He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
Jeremiah 22:28Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know?
Jeremiah 26:23and they fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
Jeremiah 36:23When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
Jeremiah 36:30Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He will have no one to sit on David’s throne. His dead body will be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
Jeremiah 38:6Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
Jeremiah 38:9“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”
Jeremiah 41:9Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (this was that which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed.
Jeremiah 51:63It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates.
Jeremiah 52:3For through Yahweh’s anger this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Lamentations 2:1How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth, and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
Ezekiel 5:4Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From it a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 7:19They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
Ezekiel 16:5No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, because you were abhorred in the day that you were born.
Ezekiel 18:31Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
Ezekiel 19:12But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.
Ezekiel 20:7I said to them, ‘Each of you throw away the abominations of his eyes. Don’t defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’