סָלַל çâlal — to mound up (especially a turnpike)
Translated in the KJV as cast up, exalt, extol, make plain, raise up.
a primitive root; to mound up (especially a turnpike); figurative, to exalt; reflexively, to oppose (as by a dam).
çâlal in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperative 6Wayyiqtol 2Participle (passive) 2
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Hitpolel
Participle (active) 1
As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
Pilpel
Imperative 1
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›