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# סֻלָּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5551

**ladder** — 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

ladder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5551/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סֻלָּם: n.m. ladder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5551/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ladder;—Gn 28:12 (E).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 28:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.12/#tree)

וַֽיַּחֲלֹ֗ם וְהִנֵּ֤ה סֻלָּם֙ מֻצָּ֣ב אַ֔רְצָה וְרֹאשׁ֖וֹ מַגִּ֣יעַ הַשָּׁמָ֑יְמָה וְהִנֵּה֙ מַלְאֲכֵ֣י אֱלֹהִ֔ים עֹלִ֥ים וְיֹרְדִ֖ים בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.dreamed and there! a.stairway \[was\].placed the.earth to and top its \[was\].reaching to the heavens and there! the.angels of.God \[were\].going.up and.\[were\] going.down on it

*JPS 1917:* And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5551.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5551/): 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).