selik · go up, come up

What it means

selik (סְלִק) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “go up, come up”.

To go up, to come up (Aramaic).

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. To go from below upward: to come out of the sea, to spring up among others, or to come to mind.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• came up ×4
• were coming up ×1

Where it appears

• Ezra×1
• Daniel×4

• Ezra 4:12

  let it be known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us, to Jerusalem; they are building the rebellious and wicked city, and they are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.

• Daniel 2:29

  You, O king, your thoughts on your bed came up about what will be after this; and the one who reveals mysteries has made known to you what will be.

• Daniel 7:3

  And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, different one from the other.

• Daniel 7:8

  I was considering the horns, and look, another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted from before it; and look, eyes like the eyes of a man were in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.

• Daniel 7:20

  and about the ten horns that were on its head, and the other that came up, and before which three fell, — that horn had eyes and a mouth speaking great things, and its appearance was greater than its companions.