סֹלְלָה
çôlᵉlâh · H5550 · Hebrew · 11 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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siege ramp
Earthen mound, cast up against the wall of a city, in order to enable to enemy to scale the wall
Examples2 Samuel 20:15 And they came and besieged him in Abel Beth-maacah, and they built up an assault ramp against the city, and it stood against the outer rampart; and all the people who were with Joab were wreaking destruction in order to topple the wall.
2 Kings 19:32 ‘Therefore this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: “He will not come to this city nor shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield nor heap up an assault ramp against it.
Isaiah 37:33 “Therefore, this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not come to this city nor shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield, nor heap up an assault ramp against it.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
What is done to itIt is the object
9 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁפַךְto pour out, to shed 9
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֵלto, toward 1
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- χάραξ chárax · G5482 · palisade, barricade
- Greek χάραξ (palisade/rampart, military siege mound) renders Hebrew סֹלְלָה (siege bank/mount) as direct translation equivalent for the same military siege infrastructure concept.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Fortifications001003002003
- A siege bank, mound, or rampart raised up by an attacking army against a besieged city, as repeatedly described in the accounts of Jerusalem's various sieges.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5550. solelah סֹלְלָה noun feminine mound; — ׳ס 2Sa 20:15 2Sa 20:7t.; סוֺלְלָה Dan…
סֹלְלָה noun feminine mound; — ׳ס 2Sa 20:15 2Sa 20:7t.; סוֺלְלָה Dan 11:15; plural סֹלְלוֺת Jer 32:24; Jer 33:4. — עַלהָֿעִיר ס ׳שָׁפַךְ cast up mound against the city , besieging it, 2Ki 19:32 = Isa 37:33; Jer 6:6; Eze 4:2; Eze 26:8; with אֶל 2Sa 20:15 (error for על); without העיר על Eze 17:17; Eze 21:17; Dan 11:15 without verb Jer 32:24; Jer 33:4.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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