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סְלִק çᵉliq — (Aramaic) a primitive root

pronounced sel-eek' · Strong's H5559 · 5 occurrences in the Aramaic Bible · 1 stem: Pe'al

Translated in the KJV as come.

(Aramaic) a primitive root; to ascend.

çᵉliq in each stem

Pe'al

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 4Participle (active) 1

סְלִ֨קוּ֙ Ezra 4:12 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine plural

Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations. (KJV)

סְלִ֔קוּ Dan 2:29 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine plural

As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass. (KJV)

סָלְקָ֖ן Dan 7:3 Participle (active), feminine plural

And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. (KJV)

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 ›

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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