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title: סֻלָּם — ladder · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סֻלָּם (5551), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: ladder. BDB 1906: n.m. ladder. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סֻלָּם

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«סֻלָּם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **ladder** — 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:** 5551 · **BDB:** סֻלָּם

### Glosses

a.stairway (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

ladder [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5551/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. ladder [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5551/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ladder;—Gn 28:12 (E).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סֻלָּם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5551/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 28:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.12/)

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וַֽיַּחֲלֹ֗ם וְהִנֵּ֤ה סֻלָּם֙ מֻצָּ֣ב אַ֔רְצָה וְרֹאשׁ֖וֹ מַגִּ֣יעַ הַשָּׁמָ֑יְמָה וְהִנֵּה֙ מַלְאֲכֵ֣י אֱלֹהִ֔ים עֹלִ֥ים וְיֹרְדִ֖ים בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.dreamed and there! a.stairway \[was\].placed the.earth to and top its \[was\].reaching to the heavens and there! the.angels of.God \[were\].going.up and.\[were\] going.down on it

*JPS 1917:* And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

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