Hebrew verb · H5545
סָלַח
salachsaw-lakh'
to forgive
46 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çâlach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5545is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 39Old Testament books
- 31spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5545
to forgive
The King James renders it: forgive, pardon, spare.
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
salach is rendered "to forgive". It stands 46 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 34:9“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
- The Greek text spells it thirty-one different ways.
The first use
“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
Exodus 34:9וְסָלַחְתָּ֛
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in thirteen 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
- and it will be forgiven13
- and you will forgive12
- forgive3
- he will forgive3
- to forgive3
- and I will forgive2
- I will forgive2
- may he forgive2
- so I may forgive2
- I have forgiven1
- who forgives1
- will I forgive1
and 1 more, 46 uses in all
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.
All 46, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
31 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
- וְנִסְלַ֥ח8
- וְנִסְלַ֣ח4
- וְסָ֣לַחְתָּ֔3
- וְסָ֨לַחְתָּ֜2
- וְסָלָֽחְתָּ׃2
- יִֽסְלַֽח־2
- אֶֽסְלַֽח1
- אֶסְלַח֙1
- אֶסְלַ֖ח1
- הַסֹּלֵ֥חַ1
- וְאֶסְלַח֙1
- וְאֶסְלַ֖ח1
and 19 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/VNq3ms13Hc/VNq3ms
- Hc/Vqq2ms12Hc/Vqq2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular5HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular3HVqi1cs
- Hc/Vqq1cs2Hc/Vqq1cs
- HC/Vqu1cs2HC/Vqu1cs
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vqcc
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqv2ms
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HTd/Vqrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HVqcc
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp2ms
Exodus
one use
“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
- וְסָלַחְתָּ֛vesalachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will forgive
Leviticus
ten uses
He shall offer this bull just as he did the bull for the sin offering; in this way the priest will make atonement on their behalf, and they will be forgiven.
- וְנִסְלַ֥חvenislachHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be forgiven
He must burn all its fat on the altar, like the fat of the peace offerings; thus the priest will make atonement for that man’s sin, and he will be forgiven.
- וְנִסְלַ֥חvenislachHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be forgiven
Then he is to remove all the fat, just as it is removed from the peace offering, and the priest is to burn it on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven.
- וְנִסְלַ֥חvenislachHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be forgiven
And he shall remove all the fat, just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the peace offerings, and he shall burn it on the altar along with the offerings made by fire to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.
- וְנִסְלַ֥חvenislachHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be forgiven
And the priest must prepare the second bird as a burnt offering according to the ordinance. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.
- וְנִסְלַ֥חvenislachHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be forgiven
In this way the priest will make atonement for him for any of these sins he has committed, and he will be forgiven. The remainder will belong to the priest, like the grain offering.”
- וְנִסְלַ֣חvenislachHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be forgiven
Regarding any holy thing he has harmed, he must make restitution by adding a fifth of its value to it and giving it to the priest, who will make atonement on his behalf with the ram as a guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.
- וְנִסְלַ֥חvenislachHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be forgiven
He is to bring to the priest an unblemished ram of proper value from the flock as a guilt offering. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the wrong he has committed in ignorance, and he will be forgiven.
- וְנִסְלַ֥חvenislachHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be forgiven
In this way the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD, and he will be forgiven for anything he may have done to incur guilt.”
- וְנִסְלַ֣חvenislachHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be forgiven
The priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the LORD with the ram of the guilt offering for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven the sin he has committed.
- וְנִסְלַ֣חvenislachHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be forgiven
Numbers
eight uses
Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”
- סְלַֽח־selach-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: forgive
“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.
- סָלַ֖חְתִּיsalachtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have forgiven
The priest is to make atonement for the whole congregation of Israel, so that they may be forgiven; for the sin was unintentional and they have brought to the LORD an offering made by fire and a sin offering, presented before the LORD for their unintentional sin.
- וְנִסְלַ֣חvenislachHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be forgiven
Then the whole congregation of Israel and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.
- וְנִסְלַ֗חvenislachHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be forgiven
And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the person who erred by sinning unintentionally; and when atonement has been made for him, he will be forgiven.
- וְנִסְלַ֥חvenislachHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be forgiven
But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.
- יִֽסְלַח־yislach-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will forgive
But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the LORD will absolve her.
- יִֽסְלַֽח־yislach-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will forgive
But if her husband nullifies them on the day he hears of them, then nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or pledges, shall stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will absolve her.
- יִֽסְלַֽח־yislach-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will forgive
Deuteronomy
one use
The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
- סְלֹ֣חַֽseloachverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to forgive
1 Kings
five uses
Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.
- וְסָלָֽחְתָּ׃vesalachetaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will forgive
then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to their fathers.
- וְסָ֣לַחְתָּ֔vesalachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will forgive
then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
- וְסָ֨לַחְתָּ֜vesalachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will forgive
be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and act, and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of all men—
- וְסָלַחְתָּ֣vesalachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will forgive
May You forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all the transgressions they have committed against You, and may You grant them compassion in the eyes of their captors to show them mercy.
- וְסָלַחְתָּ֤vesalachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will forgive
2 Kings
three uses
Yet may the LORD forgive your servant this one thing: When my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my arm, and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD forgive your servant in this matter.”
- יִסְלַ֥חyislachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: may he forgive
- יִסְלַח־yislach-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: may he forgive
and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.
- לִסְלֹֽחַ׃lisloachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to forgive
2 Chronicles
six uses
Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.
- וְסָלָֽחְתָּ׃vesalachetaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will forgive
then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to them and their fathers.
- וְסָ֣לַחְתָּ֔vesalachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will forgive
then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
- וְסָ֨לַחְתָּ֜vesalachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will forgive
be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of men—
- וְסָ֣לַחְתָּ֔vesalachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will forgive
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You.
- וְסָלַחְתָּ֥vesalachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will forgive
and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
- וְאֶסְלַח֙veeslachHC/Vqu1cstagged: so I may forgive
Psalms
two uses
For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.
- וְֽסָלַחְתָּ֥vesalachtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will forgive
He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
- הַסֹּלֵ֥חַhasoleachthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: who forgives
Isaiah
one use
Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
- לִסְלֽוֹחַ׃lisloachpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to forgive
Jeremiah
six uses
“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.
- וְאֶסְלַ֖חveeslachHC/Vqu1cstagged: so I may forgive
“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
- אֶֽסְלַֽחʾesloach-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: will I forgive
No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
- אֶסְלַח֙ʾeslachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will forgive
And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.
- וְסָלַחְתִּ֗יvesalachtiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will forgive
Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the calamity I plan to bring upon them, each of them will turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
- וְסָלַחְתִּ֥יvesalachtiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will forgive
In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
- אֶסְלַ֖חʾeslachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will forgive
Lamentations
one use
“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
- סָלָֽחְתָּ׃ סsalachetaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have forgiven
Daniel
one use
O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For Your sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people bear Your name.”
- סְלָ֔חָהselachahverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: forgive
Amos
one use
And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
- סְֽלַֽח־selach-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: forgive
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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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.
