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title: סַל — basket · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סַל (5536), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 15 times: basket. BDB 1906: n.m. basket. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סַל

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«סַל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **basket** — 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:** 15 times · **Key:** 5536 · **BDB:** סַל²

### Glosses

basket (6); the.basket (5); a.basket (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

basket [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5536/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. basket [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5536/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 40:16 basket;—ס׳ abs. Gn 40:17 +; cstr. Ex 29:23 +; pl. סַלִּים Gn 40:18; cstr. סַלֵּי v 16;—basket Gn 40:16, 17(×2), 18 (E), Ju 6:19; Ex 29:3(×2), 23, 32 Lv 8:2, 26, 31; Nu 6:15, 17, 19.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5536/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 40:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.18/)

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וַיַּ֤עַן יוֹסֵף֙ וַיֹּ֔אמֶר זֶ֖ה פִּתְרֹנ֑וֹ שְׁלֹ֙שֶׁת֙ הַסַּלִּ֔ים שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת יָמִ֖ים הֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Joseph and he.said this interpretation \[is\].its the.three the baskets \[are\].three days they

*JPS 1917:* And Joseph answered and said: 'This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days;

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[Exodus 29:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.29.23/)

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וְכִכַּ֨ר לֶ֜חֶם אַחַ֗ת וַֽחַלַּ֨ת לֶ֥חֶם שֶׁ֛מֶן אַחַ֖ת וְרָקִ֣יק אֶחָ֑ד מִסַּל֙ הַמַּצּ֔וֹת אֲשֶׁ֖ר לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and a.round.loaf of.bread one and a.cake of.bread of.oil one and a.wafer one from the.basket of.(the) unleavened.bread(s) which \[will be\].before Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.

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