סַל
basket
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H5536 appears in the Book of Exodus — 3 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus
- Exodus 29:3 סַ֣ל בַּ/סָּ֑ל n c ms prep det + n c ms You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.
- Exodus 29:23 מִ/סַּל֙ prep + n c ms cs and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.
- Exodus 29:32 בַּ/סָּ֑ל prep det + n c ms Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“basket” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun סל (çal). First canonically at Genesis 40:16, it enters the text early. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 13 verses — uncommon. It shares a root with סלל, מסלה and מסלול. See the sense tree, 13-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5536 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,836
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,836 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 13 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 12 verses · 92%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 8%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Basket 11×, Baskets 2×, Is in the basket 2×
- American Standard Version: Basket 11×, Is in the basket 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Basket 12×, Baskets 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Basket 7×, Basket of 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5536 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5536 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5536 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5536 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- basket
Word origin
n.m. Gn 40:16 basket;—ס׳ abs. Gn 40:17 +; cstr. Ex 29:23 +; pl. סַלִּים Gn 40:18; cstr. סַלֵּי v 16;—basket Gn 40:16, 17(×2), 18 (E), Ju 6:19; Ex 29:3(×2), 23, 32 Lv 8:2, 26, 31; Nu 6:15, 17, 19.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from סלל (çâlal) (H5549) — to exalt.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
סֹל
- , v. סוֹל
סַל
- basket. Shebi. I, 2 וסַלּוֹ with his basket, v. אָרָה. Y. Kil. VI, beg., 30ᵇ [read:] מלא בוצר וסלו room for the grape-cutter and his basket; ib. אמה בוצר ואמה סלו one cubit for the cutter and one for his basket; a. v. fr.—Yoma 74ᵇ, a. e. אינו דומה מי שיש לו פת בסלו וכ׳ you cannot compare one who has bread in his basket with one who has none, i.e. the craving of him who lacks the opportunity of gratifying it, is much more intense than that of him who has the opportunity.—Pl. סַלִּים. Gen. R. s. 46, beg.; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms H5536 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| סַ֣ל | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 29:3 | 2 |
| בַּ/סָּ֑ל | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 29:3 | 2 |
| בְּ/סַ֣ל | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 8:31 | 1 |
| בַּ/סַּ֔ל | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Judges 6:19 | 1 |
| הַ/סַּ֔ל | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 6:19 | 1 |
| הַ/סַּ֖ל | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 40:17 | 1 |
| הַ/סַּלִּ֔ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 40:18 | 1 |
| וְ/סַ֣ל | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Numbers 6:15 | 1 |
| וּ/בַ/סַּ֣ל | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 40:17 | 1 |
| וּ/מִ/סַּ֨ל | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 8:26 | 1 |
| מִ/סַּל֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 29:23 | 1 |
| סַ֥ל | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 8:2 | 1 |
| סַלֵּ֥י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 40:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5536, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- מסלה mᵉçillâh H4546 highway
- מסלול maçlûwl H4547 highway
- סללה çôlᵉlâh H5550 mound
- סלם çullâm H5551 ladder
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 13 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
