Word study
Send
18 Hebrew and 11 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: sent, send, sending, sends. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “send” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- שָׁלַח shâlachsendtranslated this way 564 times of its 829 uses · Strong’s H7971Verb · Translated: sent 334, send 126, go 43, sending 19Full study and all 783 verses →
Genesis 8:7 and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
Exodus 2:5 Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.
- נָתַן nâthangive, put, settranslated this way 14 times of its 1,957 uses · Strong’s H5414Verb · Translated: give 326, gave 206, given 187, put 135Full study and all 1,785 verses →
Exodus 9:23 So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.
- שְׁלַח shelachsendtranslated this way 12 times of its 14 uses · Strong’s H7972Verb · Translated: sent 11, send 1, lifts 1, decreed 1Full study and all 14 verses →
Ezra 4:11 (This is the text of the letter they sent to him.) To King Artaxerxes, From your servants, the men west of the Euphrates:
Daniel 3:2 Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent word to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the other officials of the provinces to attend the dedication of the statue he had set up.
- שׁוּב shûbturn back, returntranslated this way 10 times of its 1,007 uses · Strong’s H7725Verb · Translated: return 218, returned 105, restore 62, turn 56Full study and all 920 verses →
1 Samuel 6:4 “What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they said, “according to the number of rulers of the Philistines, since the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.
1 Kings 12:9 He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
- יָצָא yâtsâgo or come outtranslated this way 7 times of its 1,035 uses · Strong’s H3318Verb · Translated: brought 108, went 103, go 82, came 78Full study and all 975 verses →
Genesis 19:5 They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”
Deuteronomy 24:5 If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.
- עָבַר âbarpass over, through, by, pass ontranslated this way 5 times of its 542 uses · Strong’s H5674Verb · Translated: pass 62, crossed 57, cross 52, passed 35Full study and all 487 verses →
Genesis 32:23 He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.
Exodus 36:6 After Moses had given an order, they sent a proclamation throughout the camp: “No man or woman should make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing more,
- כֹּל kôlthe whole, alltranslated this way 5 times of its 5,107 uses · Strong’s H3605Noun · Translated: all 1,589, and all 471, whole 223, every 196Full study and all 4,112 verses →
Genesis 45:1 Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.
- עַם ampeopletranslated this way 4 times of its 1,751 uses · Strong’s H5971Noun · Translated: people 1,346, peoples 111, troops 89, nations 65Full study and all 1,601 verses →
- בּוֹא bôcome in, come, go in, gotranslated this way 4 times of its 2,442 uses · Strong’s H935Verb · Translated: come 358, came 298, bring 209, brought 201Full study and all 2,217 verses →
Leviticus 26:36 As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
- מָטַר mâṭarraintranslated this way 3 times of its 16 uses · Strong’s H4305Verb · Translated: rained 4, rain 4, sent rain 2Full study and all 14 verses →
Genesis 2:5 Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted, for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
Amos 4:7 “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
- הָלַךְ hâlakgo, come, walktranslated this way 3 times of its 1,461 uses · Strong’s H1980Verb · Translated: go 338, went 173, walk 116, Come 84Full study and all 1,299 verses →
- גָּלָה gâlâhuncover, removetranslated this way 3 times of its 170 uses · Strong’s H1540Verb · Translated: revealed 14, uncovered 13, exiled 12, sexual relations 11Full study and all 161 verses →
Jeremiah 29:7 Seek the prosperity of the city to which I have sent you as exiles. Pray to the LORD on its behalf, for if it prospers, you too will prosper.”
Amos 5:27 Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
- רַע rabad, eviltranslated this way 3 times of its 651 uses · Strong’s H7451Adjective · Translated: evil 263, disaster 72, harm 38, wicked 31Full study and all 615 verses →
- צָוָה tsâvâhlay charge (upon), give charge (to), charge, command, ordertranslated this way 2 times of its 491 uses · Strong’s H6680Verb · Translated: commanded 271, command 41, gave 16, instructed 13Full study and all 473 verses →
Genesis 50:16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Before he died, your father commanded,
Leviticus 25:21 But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.
- אָמַר âmarutter, saytranslated this way 2 times of its 4,555 uses · Strong’s H559Verb · Translated: said 1,531, says 576, say 352, replied 341Full study and all 3,827 verses →
- רָחַק râchaqbe, or become, far, distanttranslated this way 2 times of its 57 uses · Strong’s H7368Verb · Translated: far 19, far away 6, removed 3, remove 3Full study and all 56 verses →
Ezekiel 11:16 Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’
Joel 3:6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
- יָרַד yâradcome or go down, descendtranslated this way 2 times of its 372 uses · Strong’s H3381Verb · Translated: went 56, go 55, come 35, came 26Full study and all 341 verses →
- מִשְׁלוֹחַ mishlôachoutstretchingtranslated this way 2 times of its 10 uses · Strong’s H4916Noun · Translated: put 4, you do 2, sending 2, graze 1Full study and all 10 verses →
Greek words (New Testament)
- ἀποστέλλω apostéllōI send forth, send, send away, dismisstranslated this way 128 times of its 132 uses · Strong’s G649Verb · Translated: sent 99, send 17, sending 8, sent word 2Full study and all 130 verses →
- πέμπω pémpōI sendtranslated this way 74 times of its 79 uses · Strong’s G3992Verb · Translated: sent 45, send 23, sending 4, Swing 2Full study and all 78 verses →
- ἀσπάζομαι aspázomaiI greet, salute, pay my respects totranslated this way 19 times of its 60 uses · Strong’s G782Verb · Translated: Greet 32, send you greetings 11, sends you greetings 8, greeted 4Full study and all 49 verses →
- ἐξαποστέλλω exapostéllōI send forthtranslated this way 12 times of its 12 uses · Strong’s G1821Verb · Translated: sent 9, sent him away 1, sending 1, send 1Full study and all 12 verses →
- ἀπολύω apolýōI release, let go, send away, divorcetranslated this way 10 times of its 66 uses · Strong’s G630Verb · Translated: release 20, released 8, dismissed 7, divorces 6Full study and all 61 verses →
- ἐκβάλλω ekbállōI throw, cast, put out, banish, bring forth, producetranslated this way 6 times of its 81 uses · Strong’s G1544Verb · Translated: drive 22, drove 8, threw 5, take 4Full study and all 75 verses →
- ἀναπέμπω anapémpōI send up to a higher tribunal, I send backtranslated this way 5 times of its 5 uses · Strong’s G375Verb · Translated: sent him back 2, sent 1, send 1, sending back 1Full study and all 5 verses →
- μεταπέμπω metapémpōI send for, summontranslated this way 4 times of its 8 uses · Strong’s G3343Verb · Translated: sent 4, call 1, request your presence 1, invited 1Full study and all 7 verses →
- προπέμπω propémpōI send forward, accompanytranslated this way 3 times of its 9 uses · Strong’s G4311Verb · Translated: accompanied 2, equip 2Full study and all 9 verses →
- ἐκπέμπω ekpémpōI send outtranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s G1599Verb · Translated: sent forth 1, sent 1Full study and all 2 verses →
- συμπέμπω sympémpōI send together withtranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s G4842Verb · Translated: sending 1, sending along 1Full study and all 2 verses →
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.