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title: סָלוּא — Sallai · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סָלוּא (lemma:סָלוּא), 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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# סָלוּא

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«סָלוּא» 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:** lemma:סָלוּא · **BDB:** סָלוּא

### Glosses

of.Salu (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Sallai [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5dc_5d5_5bc_5d0/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5dc_5d5_5bc_5d0/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a Simeonite Nu 25:14, 𝔊 Σαλμων, A Σαλω, 𝔊L Σαλωμ.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סָלוּא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5dc_5d5_5bc_5d0/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 25:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.25.14/)

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וְשֵׁם֩ אִ֨ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל הַמֻּכֶּ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר הֻכָּה֙ אֶת־הַמִּדְיָנִ֔ית זִמְרִ֖י בֶּן־סָל֑וּא נְשִׂ֥יא בֵֽית־אָ֖ב לַשִּׁמְעֹנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.name of.the.man of.Israel \[who was\].struck.down who he.was.struck.down with the.Midianite \[woman\] \[was\].Zimri the.son of.Salu a.leader of.a.house of.a.father of the Simeonite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites.

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