Hebrew verb · H5557
סָלַף
salaphsaw-laf'
to pervert
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çâlaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5557is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5557
properly, to wrench, i.e. (figuratively) to subvert
The King James renders it: overthrow, pervert.
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
salaph is rendered "to pervert". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 23:8Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
Exodus 23:8וִֽיסַלֵּ֖ף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's seven uses are in Proverbs.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it subverts2
- so it may pervert2
- and he has subverted1
- he overturns1
- subverting1
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 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- וִֽיסַלֵּ֖ף2
- וַ֝יְסַלֵּ֗ף1
- יְסַלֵּֽף׃1
- מְסַלֵּ֖ף1
- תְּסַלֵּ֥ף1
- תְּסַלֵּ֣ף1
The grammar of each form
- HC/Vpu3ms2HC/Vpu3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVpi3fs
- Hc/Vpw3ms1Hc/Vpw3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1HVprmsa
Exodus
one use
Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
- וִֽיסַלֵּ֖ףvisalefHC/Vpu3mstagged: so it may pervert
Deuteronomy
one use
Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
- וִֽיסַלֵּ֖ףvisalefHC/Vpu3mstagged: so it may pervert
Job
one use
He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established.
- יְסַלֵּֽף׃yesalefverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he overturns
Proverbs
four uses
Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness undermines the sinner.
- תְּסַלֵּ֥ףtesalefverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it subverts
A man’s own folly subverts his way, yet his heart rages against the LORD.
- תְּסַלֵּ֣ףtesalefverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it subverts
The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.
- מְסַלֵּ֖ףmesalefverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: subverting
The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.
- וַ֝יְסַלֵּ֗ףvaysalefHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he has subverted
The letters
Gematria 170· 890 mispar gadol
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.