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title: סְלֵק — come up · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: סְלֵק (lemma:סְלֵק), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 5 times: come up. BDB 1906: vb. come up. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סְלֵק

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«סְלֵק» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **come up** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** lemma:סְלֵק · **BDB:** סְלֵק

### Glosses

it.came.up (2); they.came.up (2); \[were\].coming.up (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

come up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5dc_5b5_5e7/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. come up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5dc_5b5_5e7/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. come up (Aramaic loan-word in BH, q.v.);— Pf. 3 fs. סִלְקַת Dn 7:20, ת—ַ(!) v 8 (K§ 25 b)); 3 mpl. סְלִ֫קוּ 2:29 Ezr 4:12; Pt. fpl. סָֽלְקָן Dn 7:3;—come up, מִן pers. Ezr 4:12, מִן־יַמָּא Dn 7:3; abs. of horn in vision 7:8, 20; fig. of thoughts 2:29. lift, take up: Pf. 3 mpl. הַסִּ֫קוּ (as if from נסק; K§ 44 b)) Dn 3:22; Inf. לְהַנְסָקָה (Kl.c. Str§ 3 h) 6:24 (מִן loc.), both c. ל acc. pers. (WCG 225) be taken up: Pf. 3 ms. הֻסַּק 6:24 (מִן loc.).

### Jastrow 1903

סְלֵק: to rise, go up; to go away to occur Pa to stop, hush, keep silence to turn out, result to agree with halakha to occur to the mind; to desire; to entertain an opinion to grow, heal up to remove to dismiss with payment; to settle, satisfy to remove one’s self, rise, go away; to be removed, taken away; [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5dc_5b5_5e7/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** , ch. same, (corresp. to h. עָלָה) to rise, go up; to go away. Targ. Gen. XIX, 28 (Y. ed. Amst. סַלִּיק). Ib. XXXII, 27 (Y. ed. Amst. סַלִּיק). Targ. Ex. XIII, 18; a. fr.—Bets. 38ᵃ, a. fr. כי ס׳ ר׳ וכ׳ when R. A. went up (from Babylonia to Palestine); ib. כי ס׳ להתם Ms. M. when he arrived there; a. fr. to occur. Taan. 21ᵃ כל מילתא דהוה סַלְקָא ליה הוה אמר וכ׳ (Ms. M. כל דהוה ס׳ ביה) whatever happened to him, he said, this, too, is for good; Snh. 108ᵇ bot.; a. fr. (interch. with Pa.) to stop, hush, keep silence. Targ. Jud. III, 19; Targ. Am. VI, 10; VIII, 3 (h. text הס). to turn out, result, (with אליבא) to agree with. Targ. I Chr. XI, 11.—B. Kam. 92ᵃ bot. לא הוה סלקא ליה שמעתא וכ׳ Ms. H. (ed. סליק, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 30) whatever tradition he reported turned out not to be in agreement with the halakha with על ליבא, דעתא \&c. (= h. עלה על לב) to occur to the mind; to desire; to entertain an opinion. Targ. II Chr. VII, 11.—In Talm. סלקא דעתא = סלק אד׳, v. דַּעְתָּא.—Ḥull. 64ᵇ, a. fr. לא ס"ד that cannot rise in your mind, no idea of it. (cmp. עלתה ארוכה העלה ארוכה, v. אֲרוּכָה II) to grow, heal up. Sabb. 134ᵇ, a. e., v. הַיָיא. to remove. Targ. Ez. XLV, 9 (not סְלִי׳). Targ. Job XXXIV, 29 (not ויסלף). Targ. Ps. CII, 25; a. fr.—Nidd. 51ᵇ בתר דסַלִּיקוּ וכ׳ after they have taken off their phylacteries. Gitt. 52ᵇ ואֵיסַלְּקִינֵיה and I shall remove him (from office). Ib. מְסַלְּקִינָן ליה we (the court) must discharge him; a. fr. (with or without בזוזא) to dismiss with payment; to settle, satisfy. B. Mets. 68ᵃ מצי מְסַלֵּק ליה he has a right to settle with him (satisfy the mortgage). Ib. 67ᵃ, v. מַשְׁכַּנְתָּא; a. fr. to remove one’s self, rise, go away; to be removed, taken away; to die. Targ. Gen. XII, 8. Targ. I Chr. V, 1 (ed. Lag. a. oth. אשתקלת); a. fr.—Targ. Y. Ex. XII, 43 דא׳ who deserted the Jewish faith (O. ed. Berl. דאשתמד; oth. ed. דאסתלק; h. text בן נכר).—Keth. 106ᵃ כיון דעבד הכי א׳ after he had done this, he (Elijah) stayed away (ceased to appear to him); a. fr. to be accounted. R. Hash. 27ᵃ תִּיסְּלֵק לה בתרתי let it be accounted as two notes.—\[Ber. 56ᵇ אסתליק Ms. M., v. צְלַק.\]

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סְלֵק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b0_5dc_5b5_5e7/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 7:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.7.3/)

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וְאַרְבַּ֤ע חֵיוָן֙ רַבְרְבָ֔ן סָלְקָ֖ן מִן־יַמָּ֑א שָׁנְיָ֖ן דָּ֥א מִן־דָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and four beasts great \[were\].coming.up from the sea \[they.were\].different this.\[one\] from this.\[one\]

*JPS 1917:* And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

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[Daniel 2:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.2.29/)

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אַ֣נְתְּהמַלְכָּ֗א רַעְיוֹנָךְ֙ עַל־מִשְׁכְּבָ֣ךְ סְלִ֔קוּ מָ֛ה דִּ֥י לֶהֱוֵ֖א אַחֲרֵ֣י דְנָ֑ה וְגָלֵ֧א רָזַיָּ֛א הוֹדְעָ֖ךְ מָה־דִ֥י לֶהֱוֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* you O king thought\[s\] your on bed your they.came.up what that it.will.be after this and \[one.who\].reveals (the) secrets he has.made.known.to.you what that it.will.be

*JPS 1917:* as for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter; and He that revealeth secrets hath made known to thee what shall come to pass.

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