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# סָלָה

Biblical Hebrew

**weigh** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

weigh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5dc_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָלָה²: vb. weigh, balance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5dc_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. weigh, balance (‖ form of סָלָא q.v.);— Impf. 3 fs. לֹא־תְסֻלֶּה בְּכֶתֶם Jb 28:16 it cannot be weighed against (estimated in) gold of Ophir, cf. v 19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it will be paid (2).

## In the verses

[Job 28:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.16/#tree)

לֹֽא־תְ֭סֻלֶּה בְּכֶ֣תֶם אוֹפִ֑יר בְּשֹׁ֖הַם יָקָ֣ר וְסַפִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* not it.will.be.paid in.(the) gold of.Ophir in onyx precious and sapphire

*JPS 1917:* It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

[Job 28:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.19/#tree)

לֹֽא־יַ֭עַרְכֶנָּה פִּטְדַת־כּ֑וּשׁ בְּכֶ֥תֶם טָ֝ה֗וֹר לֹ֣א תְסֻלֶּֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* not it will.be.comparable.to.it (the).topaz of.Cush in gold pure not it.will.be.paid

*JPS 1917:* The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5dc_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5dc_5b8_5d4/): 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).