שִׁלַּ֖ח

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 שִׁלַּ֖ח

   shi-LAKH

   he sent away
2. clause🔊 וְיֶ֣תֶר הָעָ֔ם שִׁלַּ֖ח אִ֥ישׁ לְאֹהָלָֽיו׃

   ve-YE-ter ha-AM shi-LAKH ISH le-o-ha-LAV

   and the rest of the people he sent away a man or each man to his tent
3. sentence🔊 וַיִּבְחַר־ל֨וֹ שָׁא֜וּל שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת אֲלָפִים֮ מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל֒ וַיִּהְי֨וּ עִם־שָׁא֜וּל אַלְפַּ֗יִם בְּמִכְמָשׂ֙ וּבְהַ֣ר בֵּֽית־אֵ֔ל וְאֶ֗לֶף הָיוּ֙ עִם־י֣וֹנָתָ֔ן בְּגִבְעַ֖ת בִּנְיָמִ֑ין וְיֶ֣תֶר הָעָ֔ם שִׁלַּ֖ח אִ֥ישׁ לְאֹהָלָֽיו׃

   va-yiv-KHAR-LO sha-UL she-LO-shet a-la-FIM mi-yis-ra-EL va-yih-YU im-sha-UL al-pa-YIM be-mikh-MAS u-ve-HAR BET-EL ve-E-lef ha-YU im-yo-na-TAN be-giv-AT bin-ya-MIN ve-YE-ter ha-AM shi-LAKH ISH le-o-ha-LAV

   and he chose for himself Saul three {construct of} thousands from Israel and they were with Saul two thousand in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeath of Benjamin and the rest of the people he sent away a man or each man to his tent

Exegesis

The repeated vav-conjunctions create narrative flow, while the final dismissal clause uses the perfect shillakh {שִׁלַּח | šillāḥ} ‘he sent’, ish {אִישׁ | ʼîš} ‘each man’, and the infinitive-directional le-ohalav {לְאֹהָלָיו | lə-ʼōhālāw} ‘to his tents’, rendered in English as discrete past actions to preserve emphasis on assignment and dismissal.

Root and etymology

sh-l-ḥ🔊 שׁ־ל־חshin–lamed–ḥeth

“to send”

• 🔊 מְשֻׁלָּחməšullāḥsent2 Kings 5:18