To ascend
סְלֵקStrong’s H5559seliq (se-liq)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Seliq is the Aramaic word usually translated “came up”, “it came up” and “take up”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.”
Meaning
- To ascend, come up(P'al) to come up · (P'il) to come up
How it's translated
- they came up 2
- it came up 2
- to take up 1
- and he was taken up 1
- coming up 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 5
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 6:23In contextThen was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.
- Daniel 7:3In contextAnd four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
- Daniel 7:8In contextI considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
- Daniel 7:20In contextAnd of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
- Ezra 4:12Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.
Aramaic dictionary
סְלֵק seliq · to ascend
1) to ascend, come up 1a) (P'al) to come up 1b) (P'il) to come up
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ascend” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ASCEND', verb transitive
To go or move upwards upon, as to ascend a hill or ladder; or to climb, as to ascend a tree.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.