Hebrew noun (feminine) · H5550
סֹלְלָה
solelahso-lel-aw'
mound
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çôlᵉlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5550is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5550
a military mound, i.e. rampart of besiegers
The King James renders it: bank, mount.
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
solelah is rendered "mound". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 20:15And Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel-beth-maacah and built a siege ramp against the outer rampart of the city. As all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to topple it,
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
And Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel-beth-maacah and built a siege ramp against the outer rampart of the city. As all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to topple it,
2 Samuel 20:15סֹֽלְלָה֙
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
- a mound9
- the mounds2
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 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- סֹלְלָ֖ה2
- סֹלְלָֽה׃2
- הַסֹּלְל֗וֹת1
- הַסֹּלְל֖וֹת1
- סֽוֹלֲלָ֔ה1
- סֹֽלְלָה֙1
- סֹלְלָ֑ה1
- סֹֽלְלָ֑ה1
- סֹֽלְלָ֔ה1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular9HNcfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural2HTd/Ncfpa
2 Samuel
one use
And Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel-beth-maacah and built a siege ramp against the outer rampart of the city. As all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to topple it,
- סֹֽלְלָה֙solelahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a mound
2 Kings
one use
So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.
- סֹלְלָֽה׃solelahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a mound
Isaiah
one use
So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.
- סֹלְלָֽה׃solelahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a mound
Jeremiah
three uses
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.
- סֹלְלָ֑הsolelahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a mound
See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!
- הַסֹּלְל֗וֹתhasolelotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the mounds
For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah that have been torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword:
- הַסֹּלְל֖וֹתhasolelotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the mounds
Ezekiel
four uses
Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.
- סֹֽלְלָ֑הsolelahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a mound
Pharaoh with his mighty army and vast horde will not help him in battle, when ramps are built and siege walls constructed to destroy many lives.
- סֹלְלָ֖הsolelahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a mound
In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.
- סֹלְלָ֖הsolelahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a mound
He will slaughter the villages of your mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp to your walls, and raise his shields against you.
- סֹֽלְלָ֔הsolelahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a mound
Daniel
one use
Then the king of the North will come, build up a siege ramp, and capture a fortified city. The forces of the South will not stand; even their best troops will not be able to resist.
- סֽוֹלֲלָ֔הsolalahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a mound
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.