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Strong's #5543: Calluw (pronounced sal-loo')

or Calluw; {sal-loo'}; or Caluw {sal-loo'}; or Callay {sal-lah'-ee}; from 5541; weighed; Sallu or Sallai, the name of two Israelites:--Sallai, Sallu, Salu.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּ / ּ / ּּ / ּּ

sallû / sallû' / sâlû' / sallay

Sallu or Salu or Sallai = "weighed"

1) a priest in the time of Zerubbabel

2) father of Zimri, the prince of the Simeonites, who was slain by Phinehas

3) a post exilic Benjamite

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H5541



Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

Numbers 25:14: "with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house"
1 Chronicles 9:7: "And of the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah,"
Nehemiah 11:7: "And these are the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed,"
Nehemiah 11:8: "And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight."
Nehemiah 12:7: " Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren"
Nehemiah 12:20: " Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;"









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