H5549

סָלַל

sa.lalH:V

to build

1) to lift up, cast up, exalt 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cast up a highway 1a2) to cast up a way 1a3) to lift up (of song) 1b) (Pilpel) to exalt, esteem highly, prize 1c) (Hithpoel) to exalt oneself

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

I. [סָלַל] verb lift up, cast up (Late Hebrew סִלְסֵל esteem highly, סִלְסוּל loftiness, distinction; סוּלָּם ladder; ᵑ7 סוּלְּמָא id.; MI²⁶ מסלת highway; Phoenician סלמת stair (?) Lzb³²⁹; Assyrian sellu, sillu, perhaps breast-works Dl^{HWB 501}; Arabic is draw out, forth Lane¹³⁹⁵ = שָׁלַל, but ladder (a loan-word according to Schw^{ZMG liii (1899), 197}), compare סֻלָּם; see also ‰rry, siege-wall, Egyptian loan-word from סֹלְלָה according to WMM^As.u.Eur.101); —

Qal Imperfect וַיָּסֹ֫לּוּ Job 19:12; Job 30:12 Imperative masculine plural סֹ֫לּוּ Isa 57:14 + 4 t.; suffix סָלּוּהָ Jer 50:26 (compare סֶ֫לָה); Passive participle סְלוּלָה Jer 18:15 סְלֻלָה Prov 15:19 —

1. cast up a highway: מְסִלָּה ׳ס Isa 62:10 (twice in verse), without object Isa 57:14 (twice in verse), דֶּרֶךְ לֹא סְלוּלָה Jer 18:15 figurative of path of upright Prov 15:19.

2. cast up a way: דֶּרֶךְ with על against, Job 19:12 (of besieger, in figure), ארה Job 30:12 (of besetting foe); Babylonian as a heap of garbage Jer 50:26.

3. lift up (a song) Ps 68:5, with לְ person (|| שׁיר, זמּר; most as

1.). Pilpel Imperative suffix סַלְסְלֶהָ Prov 4:8 exalt her (i.e. Wisdom), i.e. (compare Toy) esteem highly, prize. Hithpa`el Participle מִסְתּוֺלֵל Exod 9:17 (J) exalt oneself, with בְּ against (denominative from סֹלְלָה according to Gerber⁵²); compare Eccl 39:24; Eccl 40:28.

7 occurrences

Exodus (1), Job (2), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (1)