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Nehemiah 12:7
“Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
סַלּוּÇallûw · sal-loo'
H5543 · Hebrew
H5543 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Sallu or Sallai, the name of two Israelites
- Derivation
- or סַלּוּא; or סָלוּא; or סַלַּי; from H5541 (סָלָה); weighed;
- KJV renderings
- Sallai, Sallu, Salu.
- Grammar
- סַלּ֣וּ — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 6 times in the Hebrew Bible.Numbers 25:141 Chronicles 9:7Nehemiah 11:7Nehemiah 11:8Nehemiah 12:20
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read סַלּוּ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.