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title: סַלַּי — Sallai · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סַלַּי (5543), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Sallai. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סַלַּי

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«סַלַּי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Sallai** — 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:** 5543 · **BDB:** סַלַּי

### Glosses

Sallu (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Sallai [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5543/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5543/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Ne 12:20 = סַלּוּ q.v. סַלָּ֑י a Benjamite Ne 11:8, 𝔊 Σηλε(ε)ι.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סַלַּי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5543/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 12:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.7/)

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סַלּ֣וּ עָמ֔וֹק חִלְקִיָּ֖ה יְדַֽעְיָ֑ה אֵ֣לֶּה רָאשֵׁ֧י הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים וַאֲחֵיהֶ֖ם בִּימֵ֥י יֵשֽׁוּעַ׃פ

*Word for word:* Sallu Amok Hilkiah Jedaiah these \[were\].the.leaders of the.priests and brothers their in the.days of.Jeshua

*JPS 1917:* Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and their brethren in the days of Jeshua.

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