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# צָלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6740

**roast** — used 3 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

roast [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6740/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צָלָה: vb. roast [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6740/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. roast flesh (NH id.; so Arabic صَلَا (ى), Ethiopic ጸለወ: );— Impf. 3 ms. יִצְלֶה צָלִי Is 44:16 he roasteth a roast; 1 s. אֶצְלֶה בָשָׂר v 19; Inf. cstr. לִצְלוֹת 1 S 2:15 give flesh (בָּשָׂר) to roast.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: I roasted (1); he roasts (1); roast (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 44:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.44.16/#tree)

חֶצְיוֹ֙ שָׂרַ֣ף בְּמוֹ־אֵ֔שׁ עַל־חֶצְיוֹ֙ בָּשָׂ֣ר יֹאכֵ֔ל יִצְלֶ֥ה צָלִ֖י וְיִשְׂבָּ֑ע אַף־יָחֹם֙ וְיֹאמַ֣ר הֶאָ֔ח חַמּוֹתִ֖י רָאִ֥יתִי אֽוּר׃

*Word for word:* of.it half he.burns in a.fire over of.it half meat he.eats he.roasts roasted.meat and he.is.satisfied also he.is.warm and he.says aha! I.am.warm I.see a.fire

*JPS 1917:* He burneth the half thereof in the fire; with the half thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself, and saith: 'Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire';

[1 Samuel 2:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.15/#tree)

גַּם֮ בְּטֶרֶם֮ יַקְטִר֣וּן אֶת־הַחֵלֶב֒ וּבָ֣א ׀ נַ֣עַר הַכֹּהֵ֗ן וְאָמַר֙ לָאִ֣ישׁ הַזֹּבֵ֔חַ תְּנָ֣ה בָשָׂ֔ר לִצְל֖וֹת לַכֹּהֵ֑ן וְלֹֽא־יִקַּ֧ח מִמְּךָ֛ בָּשָׂ֥ר מְבֻשָּׁ֖ל כִּ֥י אִם־חָֽי׃

*Word for word:* also before they made.smoke (et) the fat and he.came the.servant of the.priest and he.said to the person \[who was\].sacrificing give meat to roast to the priest and not he.will.accept from you meat boiled (dm) (if) raw

*JPS 1917:* Yea, before the fat was made to smoke, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed: 'Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6740.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6740/): 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).