Bible word study

Mishlowach (Strong’s H4916): Meaning in the Bible

Mishlowach (מִשְׁלוֹחַ) is the Hebrew word numbered H4916 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a sending out, i.e. (abstractly) presentation (favorable), or seizure (unfavorable); also (concretely) a place of dismissal, or a business to be discharged. In the King James Bible it is translated to lay, to put, sending (forth), to set..

• Original wordמִשְׁלוֹחַ
• Transliterationmishlôwach
• Pronunciationmish-lo'-akh
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH4916
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or מִשְׁלֹחַ; also מִשְׁלָח; from H7971;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Mishlowach appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Mishlowach (H4916) stands behind 10 English renderings in 10 verses across 3 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Deuteronomy (6), Esther (2), Isaiah (2).

How the King James Bible renders Mishlowach, by count

• settest3 of 10 (30 percent)
• puttest2 of 10 (20 percent)
• sending2 of 10 (20 percent)
• forth1 of 10 (10 percent)
• lay1 of 10 (10 percent)
• put1 of 10 (10 percent)

Three places to read Mishlowach

• Deuteronomy 12:7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
• Deuteronomy 23:20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
• Esther 9:19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Mishlowach in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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