To forgive
סָלַחStrong’s H5545salach (sa-lach)
Appears in 45 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Salach is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will be forgiven”, “forgive” and “may he forgive”. It appears in 45 verses of the Old Testament.
“O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.”
Meaning
- To forgive, pardon(Qal) to forgive, pardon · (Niphal) to be forgiven
How it's translated
- and it will be forgiven 13
- and you will forgive 11
- forgive 3
- he will forgive 3
- to forgive 3
- may he forgive 2
- so i may forgive 2
- i will forgive 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 10
- Numbers 8
- 2 Chronicles 6
- Jeremiah 6
- 1 Kings 5
- 2 Kings 2
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 34:9And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
- Leviticus 4:20And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.
- Leviticus 4:26And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
- Leviticus 4:31And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
- Leviticus 4:35And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
- Leviticus 5:10And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
All 45 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
סָלַח salach · to forgive
1) to forgive, pardon 1a) (Qal) to forgive, pardon 1b) (Niphal) to be forgiven
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “forgive” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FORGIVE, verb transitive
forgiv'. preterit tense forgave; participle passive forgiven. [Latin remitto. See Give.]
- To pardon; to remit, as an offense or debt; to overlook an offense, and treat the offender as not guilty.“If we forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly father will also forgive you” Matthew 6:14
- To remit as a debt, fine or penalty.
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.