To build
סָלַלStrong’s H5549salal (sa-lal)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Salal is the Hebrew word usually translated “build up”, “have piled up” and “exalting yourself”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?”
Meaning
- To lift up, cast up, exalt(Qal) · (Pilpel) to exalt, esteem highly, prize · (Hithpoel) to exalt oneself
How it's translated
- build up 4
- and they have piled up 2
- exalting yourself 1
- lift up 1
- esteem her 1
- cast up 1
- built up 1
- pile up it 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Proverbs 2
- Isaiah 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Exodus 1
- Psalms 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 19:12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
- Job 30:12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
- Psalms 68:4Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
- Proverbs 4:8Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
- Proverbs 15:19The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
- Isaiah 57:14And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
Hebrew dictionary
סָלַל salal · 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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “build” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BUILD, verb intransitive
bild. To exercise the art, or practice the business of building.
- To construct, rest or depend on as a foundation; as, to build on the opinions of others.
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.