solla · siege ramp

What it means

solla (סֹלְלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “siege ramp”.

A mound of earth that an army raised against the wall of a besieged city in order to climb up and attack it.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A mound of earth to attack a city's walls.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• siege ramp ×7
• siege ramps ×3
• ramp ×1

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×4
• Daniel×1

• 2 Samuel 20:15

  They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a siege ramp against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab were destroying, to bring down the wall.

• 2 Kings 19:32

  Therefore thus says YHWH concerning the king of Assyria: He will not come into this city and will not shoot there an arrow, and will not come before it with a shield, and will not heap up against it a siege ramp.

• Isaiah 37:33

  Therefore thus says YHWH concerning the king of Assyria: He will not come into this city and will not shoot there an arrow, and will not come before it with a shield, and will not heap up against it a siege ramp.

• Jeremiah 6:6

  For thus says YHWH Tsevaot: “Cut down trees, and pour out against Jerusalem a siege ramp. This is the city to be punished; all of it is oppression in her midst.

• Jeremiah 32:24

  Look, the siege ramps have come to the city to capture it, and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword and the famine and the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened, and look, you see it.

• Jeremiah 33:4

  For thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah that are torn down for the siege ramps and for the sword:

• Ezekiel 4:2

  And put a siege against it, and build a siege wall against it, and heap up a ramp against it, and set camps against it, and place battering rams against it all around.

• Ezekiel 17:17

  And Pharaoh will not with a great army and with a large assembly act for him in the war, when siege ramps are cast up and siege walls are built to cut off many lives.

• Ezekiel 21:22

  In his right hand is the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in murder, to raise the voice with a shout, to set battering rams against the gates, to heap up a siege ramp, to build a siege tower.

• Ezekiel 26:8

  Your daughters in the field he will kill by the sword; and he will set against you a siege tower, and heap up against you a siege ramp, and raise against you a large shield.

• Daniel 11:15

  And the king of the north will come and pour out a siege ramp and capture a fortified city; and the arms of the south will not stand, nor its chosen people, and there will be no strength to stand.