שְׁלַח
Biblical Aramaic
Meaning
OpenScriptures lexical index
send tree →
Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906
שְׁלַח: vb. tree →
The whole BDB entry
vb. send (BH I. שָׁלַח);— Pf. 3 ms. שׁ׳ Ezr 4:17 +; 3 mpl. שְׁלַ֫חוּ 4:11 +; 2 mpl. שְׁלַחְתּוּן 4:18; 1 pl. שְׁלַחְנָא 4:14; Impf. 3 ms. יִשְׁלַח 5:17; 6:12; Pt. pass. שְׁלִיחַ 7:14 Dn 5:24;—send, acc. of letter, etc., c. עַל pers. Ezr 4:11, 17, 18; 5:6, 7, 17; abs. 6:13, sq. vb. fin. 4:14, + acc. pers. Dn 3:28; 6:23; sq. Inf. Dn 3:2; put out hand (acc.) to harm (Inf.) Ezr 6:12; pass., be sent, c. מִן־קֳדָם pers.: subj. pers. Ezr 7:14; subj. כַּפָּא Dn 5:24.
Jastrow 1903
שְׁלַח: to send, send off to throw off, undress, flay to send; to send off, dismiss to strip, undress to send off, let loose to strip, throw off; to flay to be sent, sent off to be stripped; to shed the skin tree →
The whole Jastrow entry
to send, send off. Targ. Num. XIII, 2. Targ. O. ib. 16. Targ. Ps. XLIV, 3 Ms. (ed. פסד׳). Targ. Jer. XLII, 6 שָׁלְחִין (not שולחין); a. fr.—Part. pass. שְׁלִיחַ; f. שְׁלִיחָא; pl. שְׁלִיחִין, שְׁלִיחָן. Ob. I, 1. Targ. Is. XLIV, 26 שְׁלִיחוֹהִי ed. Lag. (ed. Wil. שְׁלוּח׳). Targ. I Chr. XIV, 15; a. fr.—Ber. 28ᵃ ש׳ להו וכ׳ R. J. sent them word to the school house; a. fr.—Koh. R. to III, 2 שְׁלִיחְהוֹן דברייתא the messenger of men (men’s guardian angel). to throw off, undress, flay (cmp. פָּשַׁט). Targ. Esth. V, 14. Targ. Is. XXXII, 11. Targ. II Chr. XXIX, 34; a. fr.—Ber. l. c. שְׁלַח מדך take off thy cloak (v. מַדָּא). Y. Taan. III, end, 67ᵃ הוה ש׳ מסאניה he took off one shoe; כד הוה ש׳ תריהון when he had taken off both of them; a. fr.—Part. pass. as ab. Sot. 8ᵇ (proverbial expression) ש׳ ערטילאי וכ׳ undressed, naked, but with shoes on (a person cares more for shoes than for any other article of dress); Keth. 65ᵇ top האי תנא ש׳ וכ׳ this Tannai (who gave the wife the right to ask for three pairs of shoes and one suit of clothes) seems to assume that a woman cares more for shoes &c. Koh. R. to V, 10 איך אינון אתיין שליחין וכ׳ (not שלו׳) how will they come (on resurrection day), naked, or dressed? Ib. היך זרעתין ש׳ וכ׳ how didst thou plant them (the beans), undressed or dressed (in the pods)? a. e. to send; to send off, dismiss. Targ. O. Lev. XVI, 21, sq. Targ. O. Ex. VIII, 17; a. fr.—Part. pass. מְשַׁלַּח; f. מְשַׁלְּחָא &c. Targ. O. Gen. XXXII, 19. to strip, undress. Y. R. Hash. II, 58ᵇ top ובטול … יְשַׁלַּח and in the shade of the fig tree he (the ox) would shed his skin (feeling warm, he would rub himself against the tree); Snh. 18ᵇ. Sabb. 33ᵇ הוו מְשַׁלְּחֵי מנייהו used to put off their clothes. Shebu. 41ᵃ צורבא דרבנן משלח וכ׳ may a scholar strip a man of his cloak? (i.e. should a scholar as such have any prerogatives in law?); a. fr. to send off, let loose. Targ. O. Ex. VIII, 17. to strip, throw off; to flay. Targ. I Sam. XIX, 24. Targ. II Chr. XXXV, 11. Targ. Lev. I, 6 (Y. II ויחליש). Targ. Num. XX, 26; a. fr. to be sent, sent off. Targ. Jud. V, 15. Targ. Y. Gen. XXXII, 19; a. fr. to be stripped; to shed the skin. Ib. III, 21.—Ḥull. 59ᵃ מאן … מִישְׁתַּלַּח משכיה he who eats three Tiḳlas of asafoetida on an empty stomach, will shed his skin; ואי לא … מישת׳ משכאי had I not sat in water, I should have &c.
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates)
Glosses
MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he sent (4); they sent (2); [you are] sent (1).
In the verses
נִשְׁתְּוָנָ֕א דִּ֥י שְׁלַחְתּ֖וּן עֲלֶ֑ינָא מְפָרַ֥שׁ קֱרִ֖י קָדָמָֽי׃
Word for word: the letter which you.sent to us [was].made.distinct it.was.read.aloud before me
JPS 1917: the letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.
בֵּאדַ֙יִן֙ מִן־קֳדָמ֔וֹהִי שְׁלִ֖יַחַפַּסָּ֣א דִֽי־יְדָ֑א וּכְתָבָ֥א דְנָ֖ה רְשִֽׁים׃
Word for word: then from before him it.was.sent.out the palm (diy).of the hand and the writing this it.was.inscribed
JPS 1917: then was the palm of the hand sent from before Him, and this writing was inscribed.
In Targum Onkelos
Number 149 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 42 times there, in the forms וּשְׁלַח (19); שְׁלַח (12); וִישַׁלַח (7); וְיַשְׁלַח (3); דִּשְׁלַח (1).
Leviticus 1:6 · tree → · Onkelos, then the Hebrew
וְיַשְׁלַח יָת עֲלָתָא וִיפַלֵג יָתַהּ לְאֶבְרָהָא
וְהִפְשִׁ֖יט אֶת־הָעֹלָ֑ה וְנִתַּ֥ח אֹתָ֖הּ לִנְתָחֶֽיהָ׃
Word for word: and he.will.skin (et) the.burnt offering and he.will.cut.in.pieces it into pieces its
JPS 1917: And he shall flay the burnt-offering, and cut it into its pieces.
Genesis 31:4 · tree → · Onkelos, then the Hebrew
וּשְׁלַח יַעֲקֹב וּקְרָא לְרָחֵל וּלְלֵאָה לְחַקְלָא לְוַת עָנֵהּ
וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח יַעֲקֹ֔ב וַיִּקְרָ֖א לְרָחֵ֣ל וּלְלֵאָ֑ה הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה אֶל־צֹאנֽוֹ׃
Word for word: and he.sent Jacob and he.summoned (to) Rachel and (to) Leah the field to flock his
JPS 1917: And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
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