BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5543
sal.lay — `valor`
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Neh.11.8; also translated "valor"; § Sallu or Salu or Sallai = "weighed" a Benjamite
6 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7040
qal.lay — Kallai
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Neh.12.20 § Kallai = "swift" a priest of the family of Sallai in the time of Nehemiah
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →Basket-maker. (1.) A Benjamite (Neh. 11:8). (2.) A priest in the days of Joshua and Zerubbabel (Neh. 12:20).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
