Hebrew verb · H5549
סָלַל
salalsaw-lal'
to build
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çâlal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5549is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5549
to mound up (especially a turnpike); figurative, to exalt; reflexively, to oppose (as by a dam)
The King James renders it: cast up, exalt (self), extol, make plain, raise up.
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
salal is rendered "to build". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 9:17Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.
Exodus 9:17מִסְתּוֹלֵ֣ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- build up4
- and they have piled up2
- built up1
- cast up1
- esteem her1
- exalting yourself1
- lift up1
- pile up it1
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 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 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
- וַיָּסֹ֣לּוּ1
- וַיָּסֹ֥לּוּ1
- מִסְתּוֹלֵ֣ל1
- סֹ֡לּוּ1
- סֹ֖לּוּ1
- סֹ֣לּוּ1
- סֹ֤לּוּ1
- סֹֽלּוּ־1
- סָלּ֥וּהָ1
- סְלוּלָֽה׃1
- סְלֻלָֽה׃1
- סַלְסְלֶ֥הָ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural5HVqv2mp
- Hc/Vqw3mp2Hc/Vqw3mp
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singular2HVqsfsa
- verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HVpv2ms/Sp3fs
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqv2mp/Sp3fs
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singular1HVtrmsa
Exodus
one use
Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.
- מִסְתּוֹלֵ֣לmistolelverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: exalting yourself
Job
two uses
His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
- וַיָּסֹ֣לּוּvaiyasoluHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they have piled up
The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.
- וַיָּסֹ֥לּוּvaiyasoluHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they have piled up
Psalms
one use
Sing to God! Sing praises to His name. Exalt Him who rides on the clouds— His name is the LORD— and rejoice before Him.
- סֹ֡לּוּsoluverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: lift up
Proverbs
two uses
Prize her, and she will exalt you; if you embrace her, she will honor you.
- סַלְסְלֶ֥הָsalselehaverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: esteem her
The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.
- סְלֻלָֽה׃selulahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: cast up
Isaiah
four uses
And it will be said, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”
- סֹֽלּוּ־solu-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: build up
- סֹ֖לּוּsoluverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: build up
Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!
- סֹ֣לּוּsoluverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: build up
- סֹ֤לּוּsoluverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: build up
Jeremiah
two uses
Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
- סְלוּלָֽה׃selulahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: built up
Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain. Devote her to destruction; leave her no survivors.
- סָלּ֥וּהָsaluhaverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: pile up it
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.