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# סָלֵק

Biblical Hebrew

**ascend** — 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

ascend [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5dc_5b5_5e7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָלֵק: vb. ascend [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5dc_5b5_5e7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. ascend (loan-word from Aramaic סְלֵיק, ܣܠܶܩ; Palm. סלק id., Lzb 329 Cook 85; NH סלק Pi. remove; Arabic سَلَقَ ascend, Lane 1410 (also loan-word?));—only Impf. 1 s. אֶסַּק ψ 139:8 if I ascend to heaven (שָׁמַיִם), thou art there (on form, = \*אֶסְלַק, v. Ges§ 66 e Köi. 301 Kau§ 44).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (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: I will ascend (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 139:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.8/#tree)

אִם־אֶסַּ֣ק שָׁ֭מַיִם שָׁ֣ם אָ֑תָּה וְאַצִּ֖יעָה שְּׁא֣וֹל הִנֶּֽךָּ׃

*Word for word:* if I.will.ascend heavens \[are\].there you and I.will.spread.as.a.bed Sheol there you.\[are\]

*JPS 1917:* If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if I make my bed in the nether-world, behold, Thou art there.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5dc_5b5_5e7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5dc_5b5_5e7/): 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).