Given name
Sallu
“heaping up”·“highway making”
Sallu is used as a given name.
Original Hebrewסלוא
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Sallu means “heaping up” or “highway making.”
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Where it comes from
Sallu is a biblical name from Hebrew.
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How it developed
From the Hebrew verb salal (סלל), “to cast or heap up.”
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In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Sallu appears in Numbers 25:14, Nehemiah 12:7, Nehemiah 12:20 and 2 other passages.
- Numbers 25:14
- Nehemiah 12:7
- Nehemiah 12:20
- 1 Chronicles 9:7
- Nehemiah 11:7
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Sallu’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 4
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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