Strong's #5549: calal (pronounced saw-lal')

a primitive root; to mound up (especially a turnpike); figurative, to exalt; reflexively, to oppose (as by a dam):-- cast up, exalt (self), extol, make plain, raise up.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

sâlal

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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

Exodus 9:17: "As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?"
Job 19:12: "His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about"
Job 30:12: "the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction."
Psalms 68:4: "unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH,"
Proverbs 4:8: " Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace"
Proverbs 15:19: "of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain."
Isaiah 57:14: "And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way"
Isaiah 57:14: "And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way"
Isaiah 62:10: "prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones;"
Isaiah 62:10: "ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones;"
Jeremiah 18:15: "in paths, in a way not cast up;"
Jeremiah 50:26: "against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing"