to draw
sha.laph describes drawing a sword or taking an object out from where it is held.
The attested use most often concerns a sword: men are identified as drawing it, a sword is seen already drawn, or someone is told to draw it. Less often, the verb marks taking something out or off, including an object from the body, grass pulled up, and a sandal removed.
Senses in use
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Drawing or having a sword drawn · dominant
Active participles describe armed men in muster and battle settings: in 1 Chronicles 21:5 the APB renders Israel and Judah as men “drawing the sword,” and in 2 Kings 3:26 it describes men who “drew the sword” for an attempted breakthrough. The imperative in 1 Samuel 31:4 commands Saul's armor-bearer to draw a sword, while the sequential imperfect in 1 Samuel 17:51 occurs as David takes the Philistine's sword and draws it from its sheath. Passive participles in Joshua 5:13 and Numbers 22:23 describe a sword already drawn in the hand of the figure seen.
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Taking out or removing an object · occasional
Qal perfect forms mark removal beyond the recurrent sword contexts. In Job 20:25 the APB renders an object coming “out from his back”; in Ruth 4:7 a man “would draw off his sandal,” and in Psalm 129:6 the grass withers before someone “draws it up.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the sword use with “drawing the sword,” “drew the sword,” or a “drawn sword.” In the other contexts it uses expressions such as “draws it out,” “draw off his sandal,” and “draws it up”; these are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.