סִלָּא
sil.la
Silla
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe word 'sillā' (H5538) is a proper name referring to a specific person. Given its classification as a name and its singular appearance in the Bible, it likely denotes the name of an individual. There is no additional information about the name's origin or significance, so we can only consider it as an unique identifier. The word 'sillā' is written in the Hebrew language, but no further linguistic features, such as grammatical function or parts of speech, can be determined based on the provided data. The semantic domain classification as 'Proper Name: Person' reinforces its function as an individual's name. In terms of its significance, the single occurrence of the word 'sillā' might indicate that its owner or eponym held some degree of importance or notoriety within the time period in which the biblical text was written. Without more context, we can only speculate that the person named 'sillā' played a role of some sort, but this would require more information from the surrounding passage.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
1 total occurrence across the text