mishloach · undertaking, sending

What it means

mishloach (מִשְׁלוֹחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “undertaking, sending”.

What someone puts his hand to, his work or undertaking; also a sending or a gift sent.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What one sets one's hand to.
2. Gifts of food sent to others.
3. Where livestock are turned loose.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• undertaking ×4
• sending ×2
• you undertake ×2
• place for letting loose ×1
• will be the reach ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×6
• Esther×2
• Isaiah×2

• Deuteronomy 12:7

  And there you shall eat before YHWH your Elohim and rejoice in every undertaking of your hand, you and your households, in which YHWH your Elohim has blessed you.

• Deuteronomy 12:18

  but before YHWH your Elohim you shall eat it in the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses, you and your son and your daughter, your male slave and your female slave, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before YHWH your Elohim in every undertaking of your hand.

• Deuteronomy 15:10

  You shall freely give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because on account of this thing YHWH your Elohim will bless you in all your work and in every undertaking of your hand.

• Deuteronomy 23:20

  To the foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, so that YHWH your Elohim may bless you in every undertaking of your hand in the land that you are going into to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 28:8

  YHWH will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you undertake with your hand, and he will bless you in the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you.

• Deuteronomy 28:20

  YHWH will send on you the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke in all that you undertake with your hand that you do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.

• Esther 9:19

  Therefore the Jews of the open country, who live in the unwalled cities, make the fourteenth day of the month of Adar a day of gladness and banqueting and a good day, and of sending portions each to his companion.

• Esther 9:22

  as the days in which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month that was turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of banqueting and gladness, and of sending portions each to his companion, and gifts to the needy.

• Isaiah 7:25

  And all the mountains that used to be hoed with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briers and thorns; and it will become a place for letting loose oxen and for trampling by sheep.

• Isaiah 11:14

  And they will swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east; Edom and Moab will be the reach of their hand, and the sons of Ammon their subjects.