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# סֹלְלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5550

**mound** — used 11 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

mound [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5550/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סֹלְלָה: n.f. mound [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5550/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. mound;—ס׳ 2 S 20:15 + 7 times; סוֹלְלָה Dn 11:15; pl. סֹלְלוֹת Je 32:24; 33:4.—שָׁפַךְ ס׳ עַל־הָעִיר cast up mound against the city, besieging it, 2 K 19:32 = Is 37:33, Je 6:6; Ez 4:2; 26:8; c. אֶל 2 S 20:15 (error for על); without על העיר Ez 17:17; 21:27; Dn 11:15; without vb. Je 32:24; 33:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 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: a mound (9); mounds (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.6/#tree)

כִּ֣י כֹ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת כִּרְת֣וּ עֵצָ֔ה וְשִׁפְכ֥וּ עַל־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם סֹלְלָ֑ה הִ֚יא הָעִ֣יר הָפְקַ֔ד כֻּלָּ֖הּ עֹ֥שֶׁק בְּקִרְבָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) thus he.says Yahweh of.hosts cut.down wood and pour.out on Jerusalem a.mound that (the) city it.will.be.visited of.it all \[is\].oppression in midst its

*JPS 1917:* For thus hath the LORD of hosts said: hew ye down her trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem; this is the city to be punished; everywhere there is oppression in the midst of her.

[Ezekiel 26:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.8/#tree)

בְּנוֹתַ֥יִךְ בַּשָּׂדֶ֖ה בַּחֶ֣רֶב יַהֲרֹ֑ג וְנָתַ֨ן עָלַ֜יִךְ דָּיֵ֗ק וְשָׁפַ֤ךְ עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ סֹֽלְלָ֔ה וְהֵקִ֥ים עָלַ֖יִךְ צִנָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* daughters your on the land with the sword he.will.kill and he.will.make on you a.siege-work and he.will.pour.out on you a.mound and he.will.raise.up on you a.body.shield

*JPS 1917:* He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against thee, and cast up a mound against thee, and set up bucklers against thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5550.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5550/): 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).