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title: סלה — weigh · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סלה (5537), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: weigh. BDB 1906: vb. weigh. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סלה

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«סלה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **weigh** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5537 · **BDB:** סָלָא

### Glosses

were\].weighed (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

weigh [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5537/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. weigh [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5537/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. weigh (Arabic سَلَأَ pay promptly Lane1398; cf. Sab. סלא consecrate, devote HomZMG xivi (1892), 531; Sud. Arab. Chrest. 124);—only Pt. הַמְסֻלָּאִים בַּפָּ֑ז La 4:2 they who were weighed against gold, reckoned of such value.—Cf. also II. סלה.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סלה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5537/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Lamentations 4:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.2/)

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בְּנֵ֤י צִיּוֹן֙ הַיְקָרִ֔ים הַמְסֻלָּאִ֖ים בַּפָּ֑ז אֵיכָ֤ה נֶחְשְׁבוּ֙ לְנִבְלֵי־חֶ֔רֶשׂ מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה יְדֵ֥י יוֹצֵֽר׃ס

*Word for word:* the.children of.Zion (the) precious \[who were\].weighed with.(the) pure gold how! they.are.considered to jars of.earthenware \[the\].work of.\[the\].hands of.a.potter

*JPS 1917:* The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

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