Word

צָלָה

tsâlâh · H6740 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

to roast

Causative process by which humans prepare food for consumption by exposing it to the heat of an open fire

Examples
1 Samuel 2:15 Also, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest meat for roasting, as he will not take cooked meat from you, only raw.”
Isaiah 44:16 Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat, he roasts a roast, and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire.”
Isaiah 44:19 No one remembers, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say, “I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make the rest of it into an abomination, I bow down before a block of wood!”

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

Who or what does itSubject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

Not stated: I 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1
Not stated (infinitive) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בָּשָׂרflesh 1
צָלִיroasted 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 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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Near synonyms 1 word

חָרַךְ chârak · H2760 · to be singed, to roast (meat, after a hunting party): Both verbs denote the action of roasting food; any distinction would rest on context, register, or dialectal preference not recoverable from the minimal occurrence data (1 vs. 3 occurrences).

Semantic domains 2 entries

Cooked002001001016: צָלָה means to roast, as of the roasted meat Eli's sons demand instead of boiled meat in 1 Samuel 2:15, and the idol-maker who roasts meat over the coals of the same fire that shaped his idol in Isaiah 44:16 and 44:19.
Pray002004001009010: This domain's connection to צָלָה is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of roasting meat rather than prayer, a sense this word carries in its separate, closely related Aramaic use elsewhere in the Old Testament.

Word family 2 words

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

צָלָהtsâlâh · H6740צָלִי tsâlîy · H6748 · roasted · 3×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6740. tsalah [צָלָה] verb roast flesh (Late Hebrew id.; so Arabic , Ethiopic ); — Qal…

H6740. tsalah
[צָלָה] verb roast flesh (Late Hebrew id.; so Arabic , Ethiopic ); —
Qal Imperfect3masculine singular צָלִי יִצְלֶה Isa 44:16 he roasteth a roast; 1 singular בָשָׂר אֶצְלֶה Isa 44:19; Infinitive construct לִצְלוֺת 1Sa 2:15 give flesh (בָּשָׂר) to roast.

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

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