סַל sal

Hebrew word for “basket” · Strong’s H5536 · used 15 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

basket

How it is translated

Glosses given for sal in context, with how often each is used:

• basket 13
• baskets 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 40 (3), Exodus 29 (3), Leviticus 8 (3), Numbers 6 (3), Judges 6 (1)

Forms

• בסל 4
• סל 3
• הסל 2
• סלי 1
• ובסל 1
• הסלים 1
• מסל 1
• ומסל 1
• וסל 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with sal more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מַצָּה matstsah “unleavened bread” 7
• רָקִיק raqiq “flatbread” 4
• חַלָּה challah “bun” 4
• אַיִל ayil “ram” 5
• שֶׁמֶן shemen “oil” 4
• לֶחֶם lechem “food” 4
• אֶחָד echad “one” 4
• אָפָה aphah “to bake” 2
• בָּשָׂר basar “flesh” 3
• אַהֲרֹן aharon “Aaron” 3
• נֶסֶךְ nesekh “drink offering” 2
• פַּר par “bullock” 2

Key verses

The verses using sal that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 40:16 — When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:
• Genesis 40:17 — And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
• Genesis 40:18 — And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:
• Exodus 29:3 — And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
• Exodus 29:23 — And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:
• Exodus 29:32 — And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
• Leviticus 8:2 — Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;
• Leviticus 8:26 — And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the…
• Leviticus 8:31 — And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the…
• Numbers 6:15 — And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their…
• Numbers 6:19 — And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the…
• Judges 6:19 — And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.