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Basket

סַלStrong’s H5536

sal

Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Sal is the Hebrew word usually translated “basket”, “basket of” and “baskets of”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.

“When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:”
Genesis 40:16 KJV
Meaning
  1. Basket
How it's translated
  • in the basket 3
  • the basket 2
  • basket of 2
  • baskets of 1
  • and in the basket 1
  • the baskets 1
  • a basket 1
  • from basket of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 3
  • Exodus 3
  • Leviticus 3
  • Numbers 3
  • Judges 1

5 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

סַל sal · basket

basket

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “basket” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

B'ASKET, noun

  1. A domestic vessel made of twigs, rushes, splinters or other flexible things interwoven.
  2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket will contain; as, a basket of medlars is two bushels.
All definitions and other forms of “basket”

    B'ASKET, verb transitive

    To put in a basket

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.