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title: סָלַל — lift up · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סָלַל (5549), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: lift up. BDB 1906: vb. lift up, cast up Hithpôʿ. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סָלַל

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«סָלַל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lift 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:** 12 times · **Key:** 5549 · **BDB:** סָלַל

### Glosses

cast.up (5); they.have.cast.up (2); \[are\].exalting.yourself (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lift up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5549/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. lift up, cast up Hithpôʿ. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5549/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. lift up, cast up (NH סִלְסֵל esteem highly, סִלְסוּל loftiness, distinction; סוּלָּם ladder; 𝔗 סוּלְּמָא id.; MI26 מסלת highway; Ph. סלמת stair (?) Lzb329; Assyrian sellu, sillu, perhaps breast-works DlHWB 501; but سُلَّمٌ ladder (a loan-wd. according to SchwallyZMG liii (1899), 197), cf. סֻלָּם; v. also ṭrry, siege-wall, Egyptian loan-word from סֹלְלָה according to WMMAs. u. Eur. 101);— Impf. וַיָּסֹ֫לּוּ Jb 19:12; 30:12 Imv. mpl. סֹ֫לּוּ Is 57:14 + 4 times; sf. סָלּוּהָ Je 50:26 (cf. סֶ֫לָה); Pt. pass. סְלוּלָה Je 18:15; סְלֻלָה Pr 15:19;— cast up a highway: ס׳ מְסִלָּה Is 62:10(×2), without obj. Is 57:14(×2), דֶּרֶךְ לֹא סְלוּלָה Je 18:15; fig. of path of upright Pr 15:19. cast up a way: דֶּרֶךְ, c. על against, Jb 19:12 (of besieger, in fig.), ארה Jb 30:12 (of besetting foe); Bab. as a heap of garbage Je 50:26. lift up (a song) ψ 68:5, c. לְ pers. (‖ שׁיר, זמּר; most as 1). Imv. sf. סַלְסְלֶהָ Pr 4:8 exalt her (i.e. Wisdom), i.e. (cf. Toy) esteem highly, prize. Hithpôʿ. Pt. מִסְתּוֹלֵל Ex 9:17 (J) exalt oneself, c. בְּ against (denom. from סֹלְלָה according to Gerber 52); cf. Ecclus 39:24; 40:28.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סָלַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5549/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 15:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.19/)

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דֶּ֣רֶךְ עָ֭צֵל כִּמְשֻׂ֣כַת חָ֑דֶק וְאֹ֖רַח יְשָׁרִ֣ים סְלֻלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].way of.a.sluggard \[is\].like a.hedge of.thorn\[s\] and.\[the\] path of.upright.\[people\] \[is\].cast.up

*JPS 1917:* The way of the sluggard is as though hedged by thorns; but the path of the upright is even.

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[Exodus 9:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.17/)

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עוֹדְךָ֖ מִסְתּוֹלֵ֣ל בְּעַמִּ֑י לְבִלְתִּ֖י שַׁלְּחָֽם׃

*Word for word:* still you \[are\].exalting.yourself on people my to not to let.them.go

*JPS 1917:* As yet exaltest thou thyself against My people, that thou wilt not let them go?

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