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סְלִיחָה

çᵉlîychâh · H5547 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. pardon, forgiveness

    Action by which deities let go of any anger or resentment with regard to the wrongdoing of humans

    Examples

    Nehemiah 9:17 “They refused to listen, And did not remember Your wondrous deeds which You performed among them; So they became stubborn and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You are a God of forgiveness, Gracious and compassionate, Slow to anger and abounding in mercy; And You did not abandon them.

    Psalm 130:4 But there is forgiveness with You, So that You may be revered.

    Daniel 9:9 “To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, because we have rebelled against Him;

How it’s used In 2 roles

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What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Innocent002003003015
The abstract noun for forgiveness or pardon, denoting the act of God releasing His people from the guilt of their sin.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

סָלַח çâlach · H5545 · to forgive · 46×סְלִיחָהçᵉlîychâh · H5547סַלָּח çallâch · H5546 · ready to forgive · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5547. selichah סְלִיחָה noun feminine forgiveness (late; on formative see Köii. 1, 197);…
H5547. selichah
סְלִיחָה noun feminine forgiveness (late; on formative see Köii. 1, 197); — ׳ס Psa 130:4; plural abstract intensive abundant forgiveness, סְלִיחוֺת Neh 9:17, סְלִחוֺת Dan 9:9.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Innocent3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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