סֹלֶת
çôleth · so'-leth
flour (as chipped off)
Lexicon
Derivation: from an unused root meaning to strip;
flour (as chipped off)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (fine) flour, meal.
Letters
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to support and uphold › authority, the one who leads › the mark, the covenant sign
To support and uphold of authority, the one who leads of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of סֹלֶת above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
53 occurrences · 53 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of fine flour25 · 47%
- of flour7 · 13%
- shall be of flour4 · 8%
- of the flour2 · 4%
- fine flour2 · 4%
- deals of flour2 · 4%
- of fine1 · 2%
- flour1 · 2%
- deal of flour1 · 2%
- shall be of fine flour1 · 2%
- it shall be of fine flour1 · 2%
- they shall be of fine flour1 · 2%
- even fine flour1 · 2%
- and the fine flour1 · 2%
- and for the fine flour1 · 2%
- thee, fine flour1 · 2%
- the fine flour1 · 2%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.