Quick Definition
to build
Strong's Definition
to mound up (especially a turnpike); figurative, to exalt; reflexively, to oppose (as by a dam)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: cast up, exalt (self), extol, make plain, raise up.
TWOT Reference: 1506
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
סָלַל (sa.lal) — 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מְסִלָּה · מַסְלוּל · סֹלְלָה · סֻלָּם
Exist | verb qal
to cast up literally: to make high; hence: = causative action by which humans create a road or access ramp by covering the surface of the ground with thicks layers of sand
JOB 19:12 · JOB 30:12 · ISA 57:14 · ISA 57:14 · ISA 62:10 · ISA 62:10
Great | verb hit
to exalt oneself = action by which humans show that they consider themselves greater than others
Praise | verb qal, verb pi
to extol = action by which humans express their respect to (other) humans or deities
Roads | verb qal ptc.pass
highway = a road that has been created by covering the surface of the ground with thick layers of sand; ≈ associated with ease of access
Shape | verb qal
to create piles, to pile up = causative action by which humans create piles of rubble or other objects from a city that is destroyed and pillaged
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[סָלַל] vb. lift up, cast up Qal cast up a highway
cast up a way
lift up
Pilp. exalt her (i.e. Wisdom)
Hithp. exalt oneself
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