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# סָלַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5557

**twist** — used 7 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

twist [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5557/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָלַף: vb. twist, pervert, overturn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5557/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. twist, pervert, overturn (𝔗 סְלַף twist (rare); Arabic سَلَفَ is pass, pass away, come to naught Lane 1407 f.);— Impf. 3 ms. יְסַלֵּף Jb 12:19 + 2 times, וַיְסַלֵּף Pr 22:12; 3 fs. תְּסַלֵּף Pr 13:6; 19:3; Pt. מְסַלֵּף Pr 21:12;— pervert, Ex 23:8 (E) a bribe perverteth the case (cause, דִּבְרֵי) of righteous, = Dt 16:19. subvert, turn upside down, ruin (only WisdLt): c. acc. pers. Jb 12:19; Pr 13:6 (opp. תִּצֹּר), 21:12; אִוֶּלֶת אָדָם תּ׳ דַּרְכּוֹ 19:3 a man’s folly subverteth his way; וַיְסַלֵּף דִּבְרֵי בֹגֵד 22:12 and he (י׳) subverteth the affairs of a treacherous man.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it perverts (2); it subverts (2); \[he is\] subverting (1).

## In the verses

[Job 12:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.19/#tree)

מוֹלִ֣יךְ כֹּהֲנִ֣ים שׁוֹלָ֑ל וְאֵֽתָנִ֣ים יְסַלֵּֽף׃

*Word for word:* \[he.is\].leading.away priests barefoot and.\[people\] long.established he.subverts

*JPS 1917:* He leadeth priests away stripped, and overthroweth the mighty.

[Proverbs 13:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.6/#tree)

צְ֭דָקָה תִּצֹּ֣ר תָּם־דָּ֑רֶךְ וְ֝רִשְׁעָ֗ה תְּסַלֵּ֥ף חַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* righteousness it.preserves integrity of.way and wickedness it.subverts sin

*JPS 1917:* Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5557.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5557/): 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).