# H7993 שָׁלַךְ

שָׁלַךְ (shâlak), Strong’s H7993: to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively) KJV: adventure, cast (away, down, forth, off, out), hurl, pluck, throw.. Occurs 125 times.

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*shâlak* — to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)

KJV: adventure, cast (away, down, forth, off, out), hurl, pluck, throw.

Occurs 125 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [שָׁלַךְ] 125 vb. Hiph. 112 throw, fling, cast
- Hoph.
- 1 be thrown, cast
- 2 be cast forth, out
- 3 be cast down
- 4 metaph., be cast

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 21:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=15) — The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.
- [Genesis 37:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=20) — Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has…
- [Genesis 37:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=22) — Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he…
- [Genesis 37:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=24) — and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
- [Exodus 1:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=22) — Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you…
- [Exodus 4:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=3) — He said, “Throw it on the ground.” He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.
- [Exodus 7:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/7?v=9) — “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down…
- [Exodus 7:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/7?v=10) — Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as the LORD had commanded. Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh…
- [Exodus 7:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/7?v=12) — For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
- [Exodus 15:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=25) — Then he cried to the LORD. The LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet…