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

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«סָלֵק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **ascend** — 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:** lemma:סָלֵק · **BDB:** סָלֵק

### Glosses

I.will.ascend (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

ascend [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5dc_5b5_5e7/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. ascend [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5dc_5b5_5e7/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. ascend (loan-word from Aramaic סְלֵיק, ܣܠܶܩ; Palm. סלק id., Lzb 329 Cook 85; NH סלק Pi. remove; Arabic سَلَقَ ascend, Lane 1410 (also loan-word?));—only Impf. 1 s. אֶסַּק ψ 139:8 if I ascend to heaven (שָׁמַיִם), thou art there (on form, = \*אֶסְלַק, v. Ges§ 66 e Köi. 301 Kau§ 44).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 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 «סָלֵק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5dc_5b5_5e7/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 139:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.8/)

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אִם־אֶסַּ֣ק שָׁ֭מַיִם שָׁ֣ם אָ֑תָּה וְאַצִּ֖יעָה שְּׁא֣וֹל הִנֶּֽךָּ׃

*Word for word:* if I.will.ascend heavens \[are\].there you and I.will.spread.as.a.bed Sheol there you.\[are\]

*JPS 1917:* If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if I make my bed in the nether-world, behold, Thou art there.

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