salal · exalt oneself; build up

What it means

salal (סָלַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “exalt oneself; build up”.

Rise up in pride against someone. In other passages, build up a road.

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 build up and level a road by clearing the stones.
2. To throw things into a heap, as with grain being gathered.
3. To prize something, like wisdom.
4. To set oneself proudly against someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• build up ×4
• Level ×3
• Exalt her ×1
• built up ×1
• exalting yourself ×1
• highway ×1
• pile her up ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×2

• Exodus 9:17

  You are still exalting yourself against my people by not letting them go.

• Job 19:12

  Together his bands come, and build up their way against me, and encamp around my tent.

• Job 30:12

  On my right the brood rises; they push away my feet and build up against me the paths of their calamity.

• Psalms 68:4

  Sing to Elohim, sing psalms to his name; level the way for him who rides through the steppes; Yah is his name, and leap for joy before him.

• Proverbs 4:8

  Exalt her, and she will raise you up; she will honor you when you embrace her.

• Proverbs 15:19

  The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

• Isaiah 57:14

  And he will say, “Level, level, clear the way; remove the stumbling block from the way of my people.”

• Isaiah 62:10

  Pass through, pass through the gates! Clear the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones! Lift up a banner over the peoples!

• Jeremiah 18:15

  For my people has forgotten me; to what is vain they burn incense, and they have made them stumble in their ways, the ancient paths, to walk in byways, a road not built up,

• Jeremiah 50:26

  Come against her from the farthest end; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps, and devote her to destruction; let there be no remnant of her.

And 2 more times.