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the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13

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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #5553 - סֶלַע

Transliteration

çelaʻ

Phonetics

seh'-lah

Origin

from an unused root meaning to be lofty

Parts of Speech

masculine noun

TWOT

1508a

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

crag, cliff, rock
1. crag, cliff
2. as stronghold of Jehovah, of security (figuratively)

Greek Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 2911 ‑ κρημνός (krame‑nos'); 4073 ‑ πέτρα (pet'‑ra); 4733 ‑ στερέωμα (ster‑eh'‑o‑mah);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (60)

Numbers 6

Deuteronomy 1

Judges 9

1 Samuel 4

2 Samuel 1

1 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 2

Nehemiah 1

Job 3

Psalms 9

Proverbs 1

Song of Solomon 1

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 7

Ezekiel 4

Amos 1

Obadiah 1

BSB (54)

Numbers 6

Deuteronomy 1

Judges 8

1 Samuel 4

2 Samuel 1

1 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 2

Nehemiah 1

Job 3

Psalms 9

Proverbs 1

Song of Solomon 1

Isaiah 7

Jeremiah 7

Ezekiel 4

Amos 1

Obadiah 1

CSB (42)

Numbers 6

Deuteronomy 1

Judges 8

1 Samuel 3

2 Samuel 1

1 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 2

Nehemiah 1

Job 3

Psalms 9

Proverbs 1

Song of Solomon 1

Isaiah 7

Jeremiah 7

Ezekiel 4

Amos 1

Obadiah 1

ESV (58)

Numbers 6

Deuteronomy 1

Judges 9

1 Samuel 5

2 Samuel 1

1 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 2

Nehemiah 1

Job 3

Psalms 9

Proverbs 1

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 7

Ezekiel 4

Amos 1

KJV (60)

Numbers 6

Deuteronomy 1

Judges 9

1 Samuel 4

2 Samuel 1

1 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 2

Nehemiah 1

Job 3

Psalms 9

Proverbs 1

Song of Solomon 1

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 7

Ezekiel 4

Amos 1

Obadiah 1

LEB (57)

Numbers 6

Deuteronomy 1

Judges 9

1 Samuel 2

2 Samuel 1

1 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 2

Nehemiah 1

Job 3

Psalms 9

Proverbs 1

Song of Solomon 1

Isaiah 7

Jeremiah 7

Ezekiel 4

Amos 1

Obadiah 1

LSB (62)

Numbers 6

Deuteronomy 1

Judges 8

1 Samuel 5

2 Samuel 1

1 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 2

Nehemiah 1

Job 2

Psalms 12

Proverbs 1

Song of Solomon 1

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 7

Ezekiel 4

Amos 1

Obadiah 1

N95 (50)

Numbers 6

Deuteronomy 1

Judges 8

1 Samuel 5

2 Samuel 1

1 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 2

Nehemiah 1

Job 2

Proverbs 1

Song of Solomon 1

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 7

Ezekiel 4

Amos 1

Obadiah 1

NAS (60)

Numbers 6

Deuteronomy 1

Judges 8

1 Samuel 5

2 Samuel 1

1 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 2

Nehemiah 1

Job 3

Psalms 9

Proverbs 1

Song of Solomon 1

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 7

Ezekiel 4

Amos 1

Obadiah 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (60)

Numbers 6

Deuteronomy 1

Judges 9

1 Samuel 4

2 Samuel 1

1 Kings 1

2 Chronicles 2

Nehemiah 1

Job 3

Psalms 9

Proverbs 1

Song of Solomon 1

Isaiah 8

Jeremiah 7

Ezekiel 4

Amos 1

Obadiah 1

ASV (60)

against the rock 1

also out of the rock 1

and a rocky 1

and his rock 1

and in rocks 1

for himself in the rock 1

for them out of the rock 1

for thou art my rock 1

from the rock 2

from the rocks 1

in the rock 3

in the rocks 1

is my rock 2

me; for thou art my rock 1

my rock 1

of rocks 1

of sela 1

of the ragged rocks 1

of the rock 11

of the rocks 3

on the cliff 1

out of the rock 1

out of this rock 1

rock 6

than a rock 1

that were in the rock 1

the rock 3

the rocks 2

there was a rocky 1

to the rock 1

unto the rock 2

upon a rock 1

upon the point 1

upon the rock 1

ye unto the rock 1

BSB (54)

a rock 2

a rocky 1

among the rocks 2

are my rock 2

at the rock 2

from the rock 2

from the stone 1

in a cliff 1

in the cliffs 1

in the rock 1

in the rocks 1

is my rock 2

mountain 1

my rock 1

of a cliff 1

of the rock 2

of the rocks 6

on a cliff 1

on the cliffs 1

rock 7

than stone 1

the cliffs 3

the mountain 1

the rock 6

the rocks 2

their rock 1

to the rock 1

were at the rock 1

CSB (42)

cliff 1

cliffs 1

my rock 5

of a cliff 1

of the rock 1

on a cliff 1

rock 7

rocks 1

rocky 1

stone 1

the cliffs 5

the rock 13

the rocks 3

the stone 1

ESV (58)

a rocky 1

cliffs 2

crags 1

mountain 1

rock 41

rocks 8

rocky 1

rocky crag 1

sela 2

KJV (60)

hold 1

rock 47

rocks 10

stones 1

stony 1

LEB (57)

a cliff 1

a large rock 1

a rock 4

a rock into pieces 1

and his rock 1

at the rock of rimmon 1

crags 1

for him in the rock 1

in the cliffs 1

in the rock 1

is my rock 2

my rock 3

on rocks 1

on the rock 2

rock 3

rock⌋ 1

rock⌋ 2

rocks 2

sela 1

the cliffs 2

the cliffs are 1

the crags 1

the presence of the rock 1

the rock 13

the rock of 2

the rock of rimmon 2

the rocks 3

to the rock 1

were at the rock of rimmon 1

LSB (62)

cliff 10

cliffs 6

crag 2

crags 2

face 1

high 2

rock 34

rocks 3

rocky 1

sela 1

N95 (50)

cliff 4

cliffs 3

crag 2

crags 3

rock 32

rocks 4

rocky 1

sela 1

NAS (60)

cliff 4

cliffs 6

rock 40

rocks 5

rocky 5

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (60)

against the rock 1

also out of the rock 1

and a rocky 1

and in rocks 1

for himself in the rock 1

for them out of the rock 1

for you are my rock 1

from the rock 2

from the rocks 1

his rock 1

in the rock 3

in the rocks 1

is my rock 2

my rock 1

of rocks 1

of sela 1

of the ragged rocks 1

of the rock 10

of the rocks 3

on a rock 1

on the cliff 1

on the point 1

on the rocky 1

out of the rock 1

out of this rock for you 1

rock 6

than a rock 1

the rock 3

the rocks 2

there was a rocky 1

to the rock 4

when the mountain 1

who were in the rock 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2484) o l x (סלאה SLAh) AC: High CO: Cliff AB: ?: [from: lx- height]

N^m ) o l x (סלאה SLAh) - Cliff: A high rock, cliff or towering rock, as a place of defense. KJV (60): rock, stronghold, stone, stony - Strongs: H5553 (סֶלַע)

p^m) m o l x (סלאהמ SLAhM) - Locust: From its high jumping. KJV (1): locust - Strongs: H5556 (סָלְעָם)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

I. סֶ֫לַע₆₁ noun masculine^{Judges 6:20} crag, cliff, synonym צוּר; — absolute ׳ס Judges 6:20 +, סָ֑לַע Numbers 20:10 +; construct סֶ֫לַע 1 Samuel 23:28; suffix סַלְעִי 2 Samuel 22:2 +, סַלְעוֺ Isaiah 31:9; plural סְלָעִים Isaiah 2:21 +; —

1 literally cliff, crag Judges 6:20; Isaiah 2:21; Isaiah 7:19; Amos 6:12; Numbers 20:8 (twice in verse); Numbers 20:10 (twice in verse); Numbers 20:11(compare Nehemiah 9:15; Psalm 78:16, and contrast the צוּר of Exodus 17:6), Numbers 24:21; Deuteronomy 32:13 (not elsewhere Hexateuch), + 10t.; ׳שֵׁן הַסּ 1 Samuel 14:4 (twice in verse) tooth of the crag, i.e. sharp crag, so Job 39:28; excavated in cliff as place of burial Isaiah 22:16; abode of wild animals, ׳יַעֲלֵיסֿ Isaiah 22:1, compare Psalm 104:18; Proverbs 30:26, of birds Job 39:28; Song of Solomon 2:14 (in figurative), compare Jeremiah 48:28, so of Edom Obadiah 3 = Jeremiah 49:16; compare ( Numbers 24:21 above and) Isaiah 42:11; particular cliffs are: עֵיטָם׳ס Judges 15:8,11compare Judges 15:13, (הָ)רִמּוֺן׳ס Judges 20:45,47 (twice in verse); Judges 21:13 הַמַּחְלְקוֺת׳ס 1 Samuel 23:28 compare 1 Samuel 23:25; see also II.סֶלַע.

2 figurative, especially סַלְעִי of ׳י (only Psalm), Psalm 18:3 = 2 Samuel 22:2; Psalm 31:4; Psalm 42:10; Psalm 71:3; of Assyrian god Isaiah 31:9 (probably; compare צוּר Deuteronomy 32:31,37); כָּבֵד׳צֵל ס Isaiah 32:2 (simile of protecting care); figurative of security Psalm 40:3 (feet on cliff), מְצָדוֺת סְלָעִים מִשְׂגַּבּוֺ Isaiah 33:16; symbol of obstinacy ׳חִזְּקוּ פְנֵיהֶם מִסּ Jeremiah 5:3; ׳צְחִיחַ ס ( bare cliff, literally glare of [ the] cliff), in figure of openness, flagrancy Ezekiel 24:7,8, of razed city Ezekiel 26:4,14 (only here Ezekiel); in figure of fall of Babylonian Jeremiah 51:25.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

סֶלַע m.

(1) a rock, Judges 15:8, 11 Judges 15:11; 1 Samuel 23:25, etc. Metaph. God is called any one’s rock, i.e. his refuge, where he is safe from foes, Psalms 18:3, 31:4 42:10.

(2) [Selah, Sela], pr.n. Petra, the chief city of the Edomites, situated between the Dead Sea and the Ælanitic gulf, in a valley surrounded with lofty rocks, so that a very great part of the abodes were excavated in the rock. It is written with the art. הַסֶּלַע Judges 1:36; 2 Kings 14:7 poet. without it, Isaiah 16:1. See Relandi Palæstina, p. 926-951. The ruins of the ancient city still exist, called وادى موسى (the valley of Moses); see my Comm. on Isaiah, loc. cit., and Burckhardt’s Travels in Syria, etc. p. 703, seq. ed. Germ.

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List of Word Forms

בְּסֶ֣לַע בַּסֶּ֔לַע בַּסֶּ֖לַע בַּסֶּ֙לַע֙ בַסֶּ֖לַע בַסֶּ֣לַע בסלע הַסְּלָעִ֑ים הַסְּלָעִ֔ים הַסְּלָעִֽים׃ הַסֶּ֔לַע הַסֶּ֖לַע הַסֶּ֗לַע הַסֶּ֛לַע הַסֶּ֣לַע הַסֶּ֤לַע הַסֶּ֥לַע הַסָּ֑לַע הַסָּֽלַע׃ הסלע הסלע׃ הסלעים הסלעים׃ וְסַלְעוֹ֙ וּבַסְּלָעִ֔ים ובסלעים וסלעו מִסֶּ֔לַע מִסֶּ֛לַע מִסָּ֑לַע מֵהַסֶּ֖לַע מהסלע מסלע סְ֝לָעִ֗ים סְלָעִ֖ים סְלָעִים֙ סֶ֖לַע סֶ֗לַע סֶ֝֗לַע סֶ֣לַע סֶ֥לַע סֶ֭לַע סֶּ֖לַע סֶֽלַע־ סַֽלְעִ֥י סַלְעִ֖י סַלְעִ֣י סַלְעִי֮ סָ֑לַע סָֽלַע׃ סלע סלע־ סלע׃ סלעי סלעים bas·se·la‘ ḇas·se·la‘ basSela bassela‘ ḇassela‘ bə·se·la‘ beSela bəsela‘ has·sā·la‘ has·se·la‘ has·sə·lā·‘îm hasSala hassāla‘ hasSela hassela‘ hassəlā‘îm hasselaIm mê·has·se·la‘ mehasSela mêhassela‘ mis·sā·la‘ mis·se·la‘ misSala missāla‘ misSela missela‘ sā·la‘ sal‘î sal·‘î Sala sāla‘ salI se·la‘ se·la‘- sə·lā·‘îm Sela sela‘ sela‘- səlā‘îm selaIm ū·ḇas·sə·lā·‘îm ūḇassəlā‘îm uvasselaIm vasSela vesalO wə·sal·‘ōw wəsal‘ōw