שָׁלַךְ (sha.lakh) means “to throw” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: shaw-lak Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
שָׁלַךְ · sha.lakh · to throw
1) to throw, cast, hurl, fling 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to throw, cast, throw away, cast off, shed, cast down 1a2) to cast (lots) (fig) 1b) (Hophal) 1b1) to be thrown, be cast 1b2) to be cast forth or out 1b3) to be cast down 1b4) to be cast (metaph)
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a primitive root; to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
KJV glosses: adventure, cast (away, down, forth, off, out), hurl, pluck, throw.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and threw | 9 |
| cast | 4 |
| threw | 4 |
| throw | 4 |
| and throw him | 3 |
| and thrown | 3 |
| and cast | 2 |
| and throw | 2 |
| and throw it down | 2 |
| and throw them | 2 |
| cast away | 2 |
| cast down | 2 |
| he finally banished | 2 |
| i toss | 2 |
| lying | 2 |
| thrown | 2 |
| and cast away | 1 |
| and cast it | 1 |
| and cast me aside | 1 |
| and dropped | 1 |
| and have cast | 1 |
| and he cast them | 1 |
| and he dumped them | 1 |
| and he shoved her down | 1 |
| and i cast | 1 |
| and i will banish | 1 |
| and i will cast | 1 |
| and it flung | 1 |
| and overthrew | 1 |
| and put him | 1 |
| and risked | 1 |
| and snatched | 1 |
| and the goat threw him | 1 |
| and they dropped them | 1 |
| and threw them | 1 |
| and threw them down | 1 |
| and throw it away | 1 |
| and thrown it away | 1 |
| and when he cast it | 1 |
| and when i threw it | 1 |
| and you have flung me | 1 |
| and you will be cast out | 1 |
| are cast out | 1 |
| are to sprinkle | 1 |
| cast me not away | 1 |
| cast them | 1 |
| discard me | 1 |
| dropped | 1 |
| for you cast me | 1 |
| had thrown | 1 |
| had thrown off | 1 |
| have been torn down | 1 |
| he cast | 1 |
| he casts forth | 1 |
| he had banished them | 1 |
| he has cast | 1 |
| he threw | 1 |
| i have cast out | 1 |
| i was cast | 1 |
| i will pelt | 1 |
| instead you were thrown out | 1 |
| it hurls itself | 1 |
| left lying | 1 |
| must throw away | 1 |
| one threw down | 1 |
| pushing down | 1 |
| she left | 1 |
| so i cast you | 1 |
| so moses threw | 1 |
| so they threw | 1 |
| strewn | 1 |
| that sheds | 1 |
| then i will cast | 1 |
| they flung | 1 |
| they have dropped him | 1 |
| they will throw | 1 |
| threw the bodies out | 1 |
| thrown out | 1 |
| throws | 1 |
| throws an object | 1 |
| to cast away | 1 |
| to discard | 1 |
| to divide | 1 |
| trip him up | 1 |
| who cast | 1 |
| who dropped | 1 |
| will be left unburied | 1 |
| will be thrown | 1 |
| will cast away | 1 |
| you are to throw | 1 |
| you have cast | 1 |
| you hurled | 1 |
| you must throw | 1 |
| you will cast out | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and cast | 22 |
| cast | 10 |
| and he cast | 5 |
| cast down | 3 |
| shall cast | 3 |
| will i cast out | 3 |
| away | 2 |
| cast away | 2 |
| him and cast | 2 |
| out | 2 |
| shall be cast out | 2 |
| to cast away | 2 |
| ye shall cast | 2 |
| against thee and cast | 1 |
| also shall be cast out | 1 |
| and all they that cast | 1 |
| and cast away | 1 |
| and cast forth | 1 |
| and cast me down | 1 |
| and cast them down | 1 |
| and castest | 1 |
| and did cast | 1 |
| and hast cast | 1 |
| and i cast | 1 |
| and i will cast | 1 |
| and i will cast you out | 1 |
| and it cast down | 1 |
| and plucked | 1 |
| and shall cast off | 1 |
| and she cast | 1 |
| and they cast | 1 |
| and they shall cast | 1 |
| and thou wilt cast | 1 |
| as i have cast out | 1 |
| before her and ye shall cast | 1 |
| but thou art cast out | 1 |
| by him and cast | 1 |
| cast me not away | 1 |
| cast me not off | 1 |
| for they cast down | 1 |
| for thou hadst cast | 1 |
| for thou hast cast | 1 |
| for you and adventured | 1 |
| forth | 1 |
| from thence and cast | 1 |
| had cast | 1 |
| had cast away | 1 |
| he casteth forth | 1 |
| him but he cast him down | 1 |
| i unto them cast ye away | 1 |
| i was cast | 1 |
| i will cast | 1 |
| me and cast | 1 |
| me then i cast | 1 |
| of land cast | 1 |
| or have cast | 1 |
| or hurl | 1 |
| shall be thrown | 1 |
| shall cast him down | 1 |
| she was cast down | 1 |
| that he cast away | 1 |
| them neither cast | 1 |
| therefore i cast forth | 1 |
| therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast | 1 |
| they shall cast | 1 |
| thou threwest | 1 |
| till he had cast them out | 1 |
| to it and cast | 1 |
| to me that i may here cast | 1 |
| until he had cast | 1 |
| until he had cast them out | 1 |
| unto me cast | 1 |
| upon thee but thou wast cast out | 1 |
| was cast | 1 |
| was cast down | 1 |
| when he had cast | 1 |
| wherefore are they cast out | 1 |
| whom they have cast | 1 |
Page 2 of 3. 121 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.
Read word by wordSo the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.
Read word by wordHe brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.
Read word by wordHe pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
Read word by wordFor because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Read word by wordthen I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
Read word by wordAll the officers and all the people rejoiced and brought their contributions, and they dropped them in the chest until it was full.
Read word by wordand the army of Judah also captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces.
Read word by wordThey proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.
Read word by wordHe removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.
Read word by wordYou divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
Read word by wordBut they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
Read word by wordAnd I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.
Read word by wordHe will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
Read word by wordHis vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.
Read word by wordIt hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
Read word by wordI shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
Read word by word“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”
Read word by wordFrom birth I was cast upon You; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 22.11
For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
Read word by wordCast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 51.13
Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 55.23
Moab is My washbasin; upon Edom I toss My sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 60.10
Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
Read word by wordbecause of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 102.11
Moab is My washbasin; upon Edom I toss My sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 108.10
He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?
Read word by worda time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
Read word by worda time to search and a time to count as lost, a time to keep and a time to discard,
Read word by wordIn that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
Read word by wordBut you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.
Read word by wordThen the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.
Read word by wordTheir slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.
Read word by wordSurely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
Read word by wordAnd I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.
Read word by wordCut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
Read word by wordFor the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.18
And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.
Read word by wordHe will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
Read word by wordIs this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
Read word by wordThey brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him put to the sword and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.
Read word by wordAnd as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
Read word by wordTherefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.
Read word by wordSo they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
Read word by word“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”
Read word by wordNow the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men he had struck down along with Gedaliah was a large one that King Asa had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.
Read word by wordWhen you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.
Read word by wordFor because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Read word by wordHow the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
Read word by wordAgain, take a few of these, throw them into the fire, and burn them. From there a fire will spread to the whole house of Israel.
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