5537. sala

Lexicon

sala: To lift up, to exalt, to cast up

Original Word: סָלָא
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: cala'
Pronunciation: sah-LAH
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-law')
KJV: compare
NASB: weighed
Word Origin: [a primitive root]

1. to suspend in a balance, i.e. weigh

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

compare

A primitive root; to suspend in a balance, i.e. Weigh -- compare.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to weigh
NASB Translation
weighed (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[סָלָא] verb weigh (Arabic pay promptly Lane¹³⁹⁸; compare Sabean סלא consecrate, devote Hom^{ZMG xivi (1892), 531; Süd-Arab. Chrest. 124}); — only

Pu`al Participle הַמְסֻלָּאִים בַּמָּ֑ז Lamentations 4:2 they who were weighed against gold, reckoned of such value. — compare also II.סלה.

Forms and Transliterations

הַמְסֻלָּאִ֖ים המסלאים ham·sul·lā·’îm hamsullā’îm hamsullaIm

Englishman's Concordance

Lamentations 4:2
HEB: צִיּוֹן֙ הַיְקָרִ֔ים הַמְסֻלָּאִ֖ים בַּפָּ֑ז אֵיכָ֤ה
NAS: of Zion, Weighed against fine gold,
KJV: of Zion, comparable to fine gold,
INT: of Zion the precious Weighed fine how

1 Occurrence

Strong's Hebrew 5537
1 Occurrence

ham·sul·lā·’îm — 1 Occ.