mishlaḥ

BDB files this noun under two headwords keyed to spelling: מִשְׁלָח "outstretching" (of the hand) and also the place of letting loose in Isa 7:25, alongside מִשְׁלוֹחַ "sending, sending away," the form behind מִשְׁלוֹחַ מָנוֹת in Esth 9:19, 22. HALOT and DCH treat the material similarly, as a nomen actionis of שׁלח whose range runs from the outstretching of the hand to the dispatch of goods. The split, however, is orthographic rather than semantic: the plene spelling appears both in the Esther gift formula and in Isa 11:14 מִשְׁלוֹח יָדָם, which belongs semantically with the defectively written Deuteronomic idiom, so the two headwords cut across the sense boundary rather than along it. STEPBible's TBESH likewise carries two sub-entries (H4916A/H4916B) glossed identically, which is why this entry merges them to the base number and distributes the material by sense instead. TDOT's article on שׁלח treats מִשְׁלַח יָד as a fixed Deuteronomic blessing-and-curse formula for the totality of a household's economic activity; Tigay notes its close parallelism with מַעֲשֶׂה in Deut 15:10, and Weinfeld's analysis of Deuteronomic phraseology places it within the school's stock formulae for agrarian prosperity. Berlin's commentary on Esther identifies מִשְׁלוֹחַ מָנוֹת as the etiology of the later Purim custom of the same name. On Isa 7:25 Blenkinsopp and Wildberger read מִשְׁלַח שׁוֹר as terrain reverted to rough grazing, a note of desolation rather than of pastoral plenty; on Isa 11:14 the construction מִשְׁלוֹח יָדָם is generally read as a compressed predicate, "Edom and Moab are the putting-forth of their hand," i.e. the objects of a hostile seizure.