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Strong's H5545 סָלַח (calach)

Calach means “forgive” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G5545 — chrisma (“anointing”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H5545
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 45
Books 13

Strong's H5545 Quick Answer

Strong's H5545 סָלַח (calach) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. calach (saw-lakh') v. 1. to forgive [a primitive root] It has 45 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include forgive, pardon, pardoned, and spare. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
calach (saw-lakh') v. 1. to forgive [a primitive root]
Usage
45 linked usages
Books
13 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
forgive, pardon, pardoned, and spare

Meaning and Definition

calach (saw-lakh') v. 1. to forgive [a primitive root] KJV: forgive, pardon, spare.

Original Word
סָלַח
Transliteration
calach
Derivation
Root: סלח
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5545. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H5545 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render calach, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

forgive Numbers 30:5 18× pardon Exodus 34:9 10× pardoned Numbers 14:20 spare Deuteronomy 29:20

How Strong's H5545 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 45 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H5545 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H5545 in the Old Testament

45 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Exodus 34:9 KJV

And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

Leviticus 4:20 KJV

And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.

Leviticus 4:26 KJV

And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.

Usage Excerpts

First 45 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5545.

Exodus 34:9 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Leviticus 4:20 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.
Leviticus 4:26 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus 4:31 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus 4:35 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus 5:10 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus 5:13 Old Testament, KJV
And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest's, as a meat offering.
Leviticus 5:16 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus 5:18 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus 6:7 Old Testament, KJV
And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.
Leviticus 19:22 Old Testament, KJV
And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.
Numbers 14:19 Old Testament, KJV
Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
Numbers 14:20 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
Numbers 15:25 Old Testament, KJV
And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:
Numbers 15:26 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.
Numbers 15:28 Old Testament, KJV
And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
Numbers 30:5 Old Testament, KJV
But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
Numbers 30:8 Old Testament, KJV
But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
Numbers 30:12 Old Testament, KJV
But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
Deuteronomy 29:20 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
1 Kings 8:30 Old Testament, KJV
And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
1 Kings 8:34 Old Testament, KJV
Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
1 Kings 8:36 Old Testament, KJV
Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
1 Kings 8:39 Old Testament, KJV
Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
1 Kings 8:50 Old Testament, KJV
And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
2 Kings 5:18 Old Testament, KJV
In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
2 Kings 24:4 Old Testament, KJV
And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
2 Chronicles 6:21 Old Testament, KJV
Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.
2 Chronicles 6:25 Old Testament, KJV
Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
2 Chronicles 6:27 Old Testament, KJV
Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
2 Chronicles 6:30 Old Testament, KJV
Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
2 Chronicles 6:39 Old Testament, KJV
Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.
2 Chronicles 7:14 Old Testament, KJV
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Psalms 25:11 Old Testament, KJV
For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
Psalms 103:3 Old Testament, KJV
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
Isaiah 55:7 Old Testament, KJV
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Jeremiah 5:1 Old Testament, KJV
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
Jeremiah 5:7 Old Testament, KJV
How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
Jeremiah 31:34 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Jeremiah 33:8 Old Testament, KJV
And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
Jeremiah 36:3 Old Testament, KJV
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
Jeremiah 50:20 Old Testament, KJV
In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.
Lamentations 3:42 Old Testament, KJV
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
Daniel 9:19 Old Testament, KJV
O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
Amos 7:2 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5545, grouped by book.

Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
Leviticus 10 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 8 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 5 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 6 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Jeremiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H5545 FAQ

What does calach (סָלַח) mean?

Calach (Strong's H5545) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "forgive". calach (saw-lakh') v. 1. to forgive [a primitive root]

How many times is calach (סָלַח) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 45 linked usages for Strong's H5545 across 13 books.

Where can I study calach (סָלַח) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5545 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate calach (סָלַח)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as forgive, pardon, pardoned, and spare. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.