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# סִלָּא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5538

**Silla** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Silla [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5538/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** word in (unintelligible) design. loc., בֵּית מִלֹא הַיֹּרֵד ס׳ 2 K 12:21; Th conj. מְסִלָּה highway, Klo בְּמוֹרַד מִלֹא other conj. in Benz.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Silla (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 12:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.21/#tree)

וַיָּקֻ֥מוּ עֲבָדָ֖יו וַיִּקְשְׁרֽוּ־קָ֑שֶׁר וַיַּכּוּ֙ אֶת־יוֹאָ֔שׁ בֵּ֥ית מִלֹּ֖א בֵּ֥ית מִלֹּ֖א הַיּוֹרֵ֥ד סִלָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and they.arose servants his and they.conspired a.conspiracy and they.struck.down (et) Joash Beth- Millo \[which\].goes down Silla

*JPS 1917:* And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash at Beth-millo, on the way that goeth down to Silla.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5538.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5538/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).