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Saturday, December 21st, 2024
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Strong's #5554 - סֶלַע

Transliteration

Çelaʻ

Phonetics

seh'-lah

Origin

the same as (H5553)

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Sela = "the rock"
1. a place in Edom
  1. perhaps an early name for ´Petra´

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (2)

2 Kings 1

Isaiah 1

BSB (4)

Judges 1

2 Kings 1

Isaiah 2

CSB (4)

Judges 1

2 Kings 1

Isaiah 2

ESV (2)

2 Kings 1

Isaiah 1

KJV (2)

2 Kings 1

Isaiah 1

LEB (3)

2 Kings 1

Isaiah 2

LSB (3)

Judges 1

2 Kings 1

Isaiah 1

N95 (3)

Judges 1

2 Kings 1

Isaiah 1

NAS (3)

Judges 1

2 Kings 1

Isaiah 1

NLT (0)

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

WEB (2)

2 Kings 1

Isaiah 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

II. סֶ֫לַע proper name, of a location in Edom, ׳מֵהַהַסּ Judges 1:36 (strike out מֵ, compare GFM); ׳הַסּ captured in war 2 Kings 14:7 (and called יָקְתְאֵל); ׳מִסּ Isaiah 16:1; site dubious; old identification with Petra denied, plausibly, by Buhl^Edom GFM^{Ju, 36} (who thinks of an actual cliff), but held Benz^{2 Kings 14:7} Bd^{Pal (1898), 206}; ᵐ5 (ἡ)πέτρα.

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

הַסֶּ֖לַע הסלע מִסֶּ֣לַע מסלע סֶ֔לַע סלע has·se·la‘ hasSela hassela‘ mis·se·la‘ misSela missela‘ se·la‘ Sela sela‘