Senses
1. sense 1 — Pual participle in Lamentations 4:2: 'the precious children of Zion, weighed against gold.' Spanish 'estimados' (esteemed/valued) and English 'weighed' both work, capturing how people were reckoned as precious as gold. The metaphor draws on commercial practice—gold was carefully weighed to establish value. Now these same people, once precious beyond measure, are considered worthless pottery. The verb highlights the shocking reversal of fortunes. 1×
AR["الْمُقَدَّرُونَ"]·ben["যাদের-সমান-গণ্য-করা-হত"]·DE["[המסלאים]"]·EN["the-ones-weighed"]·FR["[המסלאים]"]·heb["ה-מסולאים"]·HI["जो-तौले-गए-थे"]·ID["yang-dihargai-sebanding"]·IT["[המסלאים]"]·jav["ingkang-kawèstanan"]·KO["비언"]·PT["os-pesados-em"]·RU["оценённые"]·ES["los-estimados"]·SW["wanaofananishwa"]·TR["tartılanlar"]·urd["جو-تولے-گئے-تھے"]
Related Senses
H3605 1. all, every, whole (5352×)H0259 1. one (cardinal numeral) (940×)H8147 1. cardinal number two (666×)G3956 1. all (collective plural) (616×)H3967 1. cardinal numeral hundred (550×)H1419a 1. great, large (general quality) (486×)H7969 1. cardinal number three (431×)H0505 1. cardinal number thousand (427×)H7651 1. seven (cardinal number) (393×)G1520 1. cardinal number one (339×)H6240 1. ten (cardinal number) (334×)H6242 1. twenty (cardinal number) (315×)H2568 1. cardinal number five (309×)H0702 1. four (cardinal number) (277×)G3956 2. every, each (distributive) (227×)H8337 1. six (cardinal number) (215×)G3956 3. all things, everything (substantive) (211×)G3956 4. (187×)H6235 1. ten (177×)G3173 1. great in size or extent (176×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [סָלָא] vb. weigh (Arabic سَلَأَ pay promptly Lane1398; cf. Sab. סלא consecrate, devote HomZMG xivi (1892), 531; Sud. Arab. Chrest. 124);—only Pu. Pt. הַמְסֻלָּאִים בַּפָּ֑ז La 4:2 they who were weighed against gold, reckoned of such value.—Cf. also סָלָה²" dir="rtl" >II. סלה.