Hebrew verb · H5541
סָלָה
salahsaw-law'
to reject; to weigh
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çâlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5541is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5541
to hang up, i.e. weigh, or (figuratively) contemn
The King James renders it: tread down (under foot), value.
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
salah is rendered "to reject; to weigh". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to reject".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 28:16It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
Job 28:16תְ֭סֻלֶּה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Job.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to reject, and to weigh.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to rejectStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereJob 28:16It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire. |
| to weighStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it will be paid2
- he has thrown away1
- you reject1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| סָלָא | sala | to weigh | Uses1 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings 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
- סִלָּ֨ה1
- סָ֭לִיתָ1
- תְ֭סֻלֶּה1
- תְסֻלֶּֽה׃ פ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVPi3fs
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp2ms
Job
two uses
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
- תְ֭סֻלֶּהtesulehverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be paid
Topaz from Cush cannot compare to it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.
- תְסֻלֶּֽה׃ פtesulehverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be paid
Psalms
one use
You reject all who stray from Your statutes, for their deceitfulness is in vain.
- סָ֭לִיתָsalitaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you reject
Lamentations
one use
The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.
- סִלָּ֨הsilahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has thrown away
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.