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Lexicon :: Strong's H5549 - sālal

Aa
סָלַל
Transliteration
sālal
Pronunciation
saw-lal'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1506

Strong’s Definitions

סָלַל çâlal, saw-lal'; a primitive root; to mound up (especially a turnpike); figurative, to exalt; reflexively, to oppose (as by a dam):—cast up, exalt (self), extol, make plain, raise up.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's H5549 in the following manner: cast up (6x), raise up (2x), exalt (2x), extol (1x), made plain (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's H5549 in the following manner: cast up (6x), raise up (2x), exalt (2x), extol (1x), made plain (1x).

  1. to lift up, cast up, exalt

    1. (Qal)

      1. to cast up a highway

      2. to cast up a way

      3. to lift up (of song)

    2. (Pilpel) to exalt, esteem highly, prize

    3. (Hithpoel) to exalt oneself

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סָלַל çâlal, saw-lal'; a primitive root; to mound up (especially a turnpike); figurative, to exalt; reflexively, to oppose (as by a dam):—cast up, exalt (self), extol, make plain, raise up.
STRONGS H5549: Abbreviations
† I. [סָלַל] verb lift up, cast up (Late Hebrew סִלְסֵל esteem highly, סִלְסוּל loftiness, distinction; סוּלָּם ladder; Targum סוּלְּמָא id.; MI26 מסלת highway; Phoenician סלמת stair (?) Lzb329; Assyrian sellu, sillu, perhaps breast-works DlHWB 501; Arabic bdb069904 is draw out, forth Lane1395 = שָׁלַל, but bdb069905 ladder (a loan-word according to SchwZMG liii (1899), 197), compare סֻלָּם; see also ṭrry, siege-wall, Egyptian loan-word from סֹלְלָה according to WMMAs.u.Eur.101); —
Qal Imperfect וַיָּסֹ֫לּוּ Job 19:12; Job 30:12; Imperative masculine plural סֹ֫לּוּ Isaiah 57:14 + 4 times; suffix סָלּוּהָ Jeremiah 50:26 (compare סֶ֫לָה); Passive participle סְלוּלָה Jeremiah 18:15; סְלֻלָה Proverbs 15:19; —
1. cast up a highway: מְסִלָּה ס׳ Isaiah 62:10 (twice in verse), without object Isaiah 57:14 (twice in verse), דֶּרֶךְ לֹא סְלוּלָה Jeremiah 18:15; figurative of path of upright Proverbs 15:19.
2. cast up a way: דֶּרֶךְ with על against, Job 19:12 (of besieger, in figure), ארה Job 30:12 (of besetting foe); Babylonian as a heap of garbage Jeremiah 50:26.
3. lift up (a song) Psalm 68:5, with לְ person (|| שׁיר, זמּר; most as 1).
Pilp. Imperative suffix סַלְסְלֶהָ Proverbs 4:8 exalt her (i.e. Wisdom), i.e. (compare Toy) esteem highly, prize.
Hithp. Participle מִסְתּוֺלֵל Exodus 9:17 (J) exalt oneself, with בְּ against (denominative from סֹלְלָה according to Gerber52); compare Ecclus 39:24; Ecclus 40:28.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

9:17

Job

19:12; 19:12; 30:12; 30:12

Psalms

68:5

Proverbs

4:8; 15:19; 15:19

Isaiah

57:14; 57:14; 62:10

Jeremiah

18:15; 18:15; 50:26; 50:26

H5549

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5549 matches the Hebrew סָלַל (sālal),
which occurs 12 times in 10 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:17 - Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:12 - His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:12 - The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:4 - Make songs to God, make songs of praise to his name; make a way for him who comes through the waste lands; his name is Jah; be glad before him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:8 - Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:19 - Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:14 - And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:10 - Go through, go through the doors; make ready the way of the people; let the highway be lifted up; let the stones be taken away; let a flag be lifted up over the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:15 - For my people have put me out of their memory, burning perfumes to that which is nothing; and because of this, I will put a cause of falling in their ways, even in the old roads, and will make them go on side-roads, in a way not lifted up;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:26 - Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.
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