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# סַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5536

**basket** — used 15 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

basket [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5536/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סַל²: n.m. basket [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5536/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 40:16 basket;—ס׳ abs. Gn 40:17 +; cstr. Ex 29:23 +; pl. סַלִּים Gn 40:18; cstr. סַלֵּי v 16;—basket Gn 40:16, 17(×2), 18 (E), Ju 6:19; Ex 29:3(×2), 23, 32 Lv 8:2, 26, 31; Nu 6:15, 17, 19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: basket (6); the basket (5); a basket (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 40:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.18/#tree)

וַיַּ֤עַן יוֹסֵף֙ וַיֹּ֔אמֶר זֶ֖ה פִּתְרֹנ֑וֹ שְׁלֹ֙שֶׁת֙ הַסַּלִּ֔ים שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת יָמִ֖ים הֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Joseph and he.said this interpretation \[is\].its the.three the baskets \[are\].three days they

*JPS 1917:* And Joseph answered and said: 'This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days;

[Exodus 29:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.29.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.29.23/#tree)

וְכִכַּ֨ר לֶ֜חֶם אַחַ֗ת וַֽחַלַּ֨ת לֶ֥חֶם שֶׁ֛מֶן אַחַ֖ת וְרָקִ֣יק אֶחָ֑ד מִסַּל֙ הַמַּצּ֔וֹת אֲשֶׁ֖ר לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and a.round.loaf of.bread one and a.cake of.bread of.oil one and a.wafer one from the.basket of.(the) unleavened.bread(s) which \[will be\].before Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5536.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5536/): 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).