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# סַלָּח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5546

**ready to forgive** — 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

ready to forgive [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5546/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סַלָּח: adj. ready to forgive, forgiving [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5546/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. ready to forgive, forgiving;—אַתָּה אֲדֹנָי טוֹב וְס׳ ψ 86:5 thou Lord art kind and forgiving.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 86:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.86.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.86.5/#tree)

כִּֽי־אַתָּ֣ה אֲ֭דֹנָי ט֣וֹב וְסַלָּ֑ח וְרַב־חֶ֝֗סֶד לְכָל־קֹרְאֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you Lord my \[are\].good and ready.to.forgive and great of.covenant.loyalty to all \[those who\].call.out.to.you

*JPS 1917:* For Thou, Lord, art good, and ready to pardon, and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon Thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5546.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5546/): 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).