Lexical Definition

‎סָלַל‎ çâlal (saw-lal') to build ^H:V
a primitive root

cast up, exalt (self), extol, make plain, raise up.

• to mound up (especially a turnpike)
• figurative, to exalt
• reflexively, to oppose (as by a dam)

1) to lift up, cast up, exalt
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to cast up a highway
1a2) to cast up a way
1a3) to lift up (of song)
1b) (Pilpel) to exalt, esteem highly, prize
1c) (Hithpoel) to exalt oneself

See Greek: ἐρευνάω · ὁδοιπορέω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [‎סָלַל‎] verb lift up, cast up (Late Hebrew ‎סִלְסֵל‎ esteem highly, ‎סִלְסוּל‎ loftiness, distinction; ‎סוּלָּם‎ ladder; ᵑ7 ‎סוּלְּמָא‎ id.; MI²⁶ ‎מסלת‎ highway; Phoenician ‎סלמת‎ stair (?) Lzb³²⁹; Assyrian sellu, sillu, perhaps breast-works Dl^{HWB 501}; Arabic is draw out, forth Lane¹³⁹⁵ = ‎שָׁלַל‎, but ladder (a loan-word according to Schw^{ZMG liii (1899), 197}), compare ‎סֻלָּם‎; see also ‰rry, siege-wall, Egyptian loan-word from ‎סֹלְלָה‎ according to WMM^As.u.Eur.101); —

Qal Imperfect ‎וַיָּסֹ֫לּוּ‎ Job 19:12; Job 30:12 Imperative masculine plural ‎סֹ֫לּוּ‎ Isa 57:14 + 4 t.; suffix ‎סָלּוּהָ‎ Jer 50:26 (compare ‎סֶ֫לָה‎); Passive participle ‎סְלוּלָה‎ Jer 18:15 ‎סְלֻלָה‎ Prov 15:19 —

1. cast up a highway: ‎מְסִלָּה‎ ‎׳‎‎ס‎ Isa 62:10 (twice in verse), without object Isa 57:14 (twice in verse), ‎דֶּרֶךְ לֹא סְלוּלָה‎ Jer 18:15 figurative of path of upright Prov 15:19.

2. cast up a way: ‎דֶּרֶךְ‎ with ‎על‎ against, Job 19:12 (of besieger, in figure), ‎ארה‎ Job 30:12 (of besetting foe); Babylonian as a heap of garbage Jer 50:26.

3. lift up (a song) Ps 68:5*, with ‎לְ‎ person (|| ‎שׁיר‎, ‎זמּר‎; most as

1.). Pilpel Imperative suffix ‎סַלְסְלֶהָ‎ Prov 4:8 exalt her (i.e. Wisdom), i.e. (compare Toy) esteem highly, prize. Hithpa`el Participle ‎מִסְתּוֺלֵל‎ Exod 9:17 (J) exalt oneself, with ‎בְּ‎ against (denominative from ‎סֹלְלָה‎ according to Gerber⁵²); compare Eccl 39:24; Eccl 40:28.

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