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# סְלִיחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5547

**forgiveness** — used 3 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

forgiveness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5547/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סְלִיחָה: n.f. forgiveness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5547/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. forgiveness (late; on format. v. Köii 1, 197);—ס׳ ψ 130:4; pl. abstr. intens. abundant forgiveness, סְלִיחוֹת Ne 9:17, סְלִחוֹת Dn 9:9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 130:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.130.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.130.4/#tree)

כִּֽי־עִמְּךָ֥ הַסְּלִיחָ֑ה לְ֝מַ֗עַן תִּוָּרֵֽא׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[is\].with you (the) forgiveness so.that you.may.be.feared

*JPS 1917:* For with Thee there is forgiveness, that Thou mayest be feared.

[Daniel 9:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.9.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.9.9/#tree)

לַֽאדֹנָ֣י אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ הָרַחֲמִ֖ים וְהַסְּלִח֑וֹת כִּ֥י מָרַ֖דְנוּ בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[belong\].to \[the\] Lord God our (the) compassion(s) and (the) forgiveness(es) (dm) we.have.rebelled against him

*JPS 1917:* To the Lord our God belong compassions and forgivenesses; for we have rebelled against Him;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5547/): 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).