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סֻלָּם

sul.lam

ladder

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Strong’s H5551Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

a stairway1

In the text

Genesis 28:12סֻלָּם
And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

סֻלָּם n.m. ladder;—Gn 28:12 (E).

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.