Hebrew verb · H5537
סָלָא
salasaw-law'
to weigh
1 use in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çâlâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5537is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5537
to suspend in a balance, i.e. weigh
The King James renders it: compare.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sala is rendered "to weigh". It stands 1 time in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in Lamentations, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Lamentations 4:2How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
The first use
How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
Lamentations 4:2הַמְסֻלָּאִ֖ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- who were weighed1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| סָלָה | salah | to reject | Uses4 |
All 1, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַמְסֻלָּאִ֖ים1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine plural1HTd/VPsmpa
Lamentations
one use
How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
- הַמְסֻלָּאִ֖יםhamsulaimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: who were weighed
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.