Calal means “cast up” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5549 — chronizo (“delay”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5549 סָלַל (calal) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. calal (saw-lal') v. 1. to mound up (especially a turnpike) 2. figurative, to exalt It has 10 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include cast, exaltest, extol, and exalt. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
calal (saw-lal') v. 1. to mound up (especially a turnpike) 2. figurative, to exalt 3. reflexively, to oppose (as by a dam) [a primitive root] KJV: cast up, exalt (self), extol, make plain, raise up.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5549. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to build
Usage: 1) to lift up, cast up, exalt 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cast up a highway 1a2) to cast up a way 1a3) to lift up (of song) 1b) (Pilpel) to exalt, esteem highly, prize 1c) (Hithpoel) to exalt oneself
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render calal, 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.
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.
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10 indexed usages in Old Testament.
As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
First 10 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5549.
As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5549, grouped by book.
Calal (Strong's H5549) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "cast up". calal (saw-lal') v. 1. to mound up (especially a turnpike) 2. figurative, to exalt
This page currently indexes 10 linked usages for Strong's H5549 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5549 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cast, exaltest, extol, and exalt. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.