סַלçal

basket (Genesis 40:16; Genesis 40:17; Exodus 29:23; Genesis 40:18; Judges 6:19)

Pronunciation: sal · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5536

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Where it appears

Appears 15 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 40:16 When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given the first dream such a positive interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I had a dream, too. In my dream there were three baskets of white pastries stacked on my head.
  • Genesis 40:17 The top basket contained all kinds of pastries for Pharaoh, but the birds came and ate them from the basket on my head.”
  • Genesis 40:18 “This is what the dream means,” Joseph told him. “The three baskets also represent three days.
  • Exodus 29:3 Place them all in a single basket, and present them at the entrance of the Tabernacle, along with the young bull and the two rams.
  • Exodus 29:23 Then take one round loaf of bread, one thin cake mixed with olive oil, and one wafer from the basket of bread without yeast that was placed in the Lord’s presence.
  • Exodus 29:32 Then Aaron and his sons will eat this meat, along with the bread in the basket, at the Tabernacle entrance.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).