STRONGS NUMBER H5557


Word Summary
salaph: to twist, pervert, overturn
Original Word: סָלַף
Transliteration: salaph
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-laf')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to twist, pervert, overturn
Meaning: to twist, pervert, overturn
Strong's Concordance
overthrow, pervert

A primitive root; properly, to wrench, i.e. (figuratively) to subvert -- overthrow, pervert.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5557. salaph

סָלַףverb twist, pervert, overturn (סְלַף ᵑ7twist (rare); Arabic is pass, pass away, come to naught Lane1407f.); —

Pi`el Imperfect3masculine singular יְסַלֵּףJob 12:19 2t., וַיְסַלֵּףProverbs 22:12; 3feminine singular תְּסַלֵּף13:6; 19:3; Participle מְסַלֵּף21:12; —

1 pervert, Exodus 23:8 (E) a bribe perverteth the case (cause, דִּבְרֵי‎) of righteous, = Deuteronomy 16:19.

2 subvert, turn upside down, ruin (only Wisdom Literature): with accusative of person Job 12:19; Proverbs 13:6 (opposed to תִּצֹּר‎), 21:12; דַּרְכּוֺ תּ אָדָם ׳אִוֶּלֶת19:3 a man's folly subverteth his way; בֹגֵד דִּבְרֵי וַיְסַלֵּף22:12 and he (׳י‎) subverteth the affairs of a treacherous man.