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Lexicon :: Strong's H5553 - selaʿ

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סֶלַע
Transliteration
selaʿ
Pronunciation
seh'-lah
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to be lofty
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TWOT Reference: 1508a

Strong’s Definitions

סֶלַע çelaʻ, seh'-lah; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress):—(ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 60x

The KJV translates Strong's H5553 in the following manner: rock (57x), strong hold (1x), stones (1x), stony (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 60x
The KJV translates Strong's H5553 in the following manner: rock (57x), strong hold (1x), stones (1x), stony (1x).

  1. crag, cliff, rock

    1. crag, cliff

    2. as stronghold of Jehovah, of security (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סֶלַע çelaʻ, seh'-lah; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress):—(ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.
STRONGS H5553: Abbreviations
I. סֶ֫לַע 61 noun masculineJudges 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), + 10 times; 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; Songs 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, 11 compare 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 Psalms), 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.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

17:6

Numbers

20:8; 20:10; 20:10; 20:11; 24:21; 24:21

Deuteronomy

32:13; 32:31; 32:37

Judges

6:20; 6:20; 6:20; 15:8; 15:11; 15:13; 20:45; 20:47; 21:13

1 Samuel

14:4; 23:25; 23:28; 23:28

2 Samuel

22:2; 22:2

Nehemiah

9:15

Job

39:28; 39:28

Psalms

18:3; 31:4; 40:3; 42:10; 71:3; 78:16; 104:18

Proverbs

30:26

Song of Songs

2:14

Isaiah

2:21; 2:21; 7:19; 22:1; 22:16; 31:9; 31:9; 32:2; 33:16; 42:11

Jeremiah

5:3; 48:28; 49:16; 51:25

Ezekiel

24:7; 24:8; 26:4; 26:14

Amos

6:12

Obadiah

1:3

H5553

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Strong's Number H5553 matches the Hebrew סֶלַע (selaʿ),
which occurs 59 times in 53 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Num 20:8–Eze 26:4)

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:8 - “Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:10 - Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:11 - And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:21 - And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said,
“Enduring is your dwelling place,
and your nest is set in the rock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He made him ride on the high places of the land,
and he ate the produce of the field,
and he suckled him with honey out of the rock,
and oil out of the flinty rock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:36 - And the border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:20 - And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them.” And he did so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8 - And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so have I done to them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:13 - They said to him, “No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands. We will surely not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. Five thousand men of them were cut down in the highways. And they were pursued hard to Gidom, and 2,000 men of them were struck down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47 - But 600 men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon and remained at the rock of Rimmon four months.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:13 - Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon and proclaimed peace to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6 - When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:4 - Within the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side. The name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:25 - And Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told, so he went down to the rock and lived in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:2 - He said,
“The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:11 - And he said, “Go out and stand on the mount before the LORD.” And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 25:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:12 - The men of Judah captured another 10,000 alive and took them to the top of a rock and threw them down from the top of the rock, and they were all dashed to pieces.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:15 - You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:1 - “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?
Do you observe the calving of the does?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:28 - On the rock he dwells and makes his home,
on the rocky crag and stronghold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2 - The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,
my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:3 - For you are my rock and my fortress;
and for your name’s sake you lead me and guide me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 - He drew me up from the pit of destruction,
out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
making my steps secure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:9 - I say to God, my rock:
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:3 - Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:16 - He made streams come out of the rock
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:18 - The high mountains are for the wild goats;
the rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:9 - Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rock!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 141:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:6 - When their judges are thrown over the cliff,[fn]
then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:26 - the rock badgers are a people not mighty,
yet they make their homes in the cliffs;

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:14 - O my dove, in the clefts of the rock,
in the crannies of the cliff,
let me see your face,
let me hear your voice,
for your voice is sweet,
and your face is lovely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21 - to enter the caverns of the rocks
and the clefts of the cliffs,
from before the terror of the LORD,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
when he rises to terrify the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:19 - And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:16 - What have you to do here, and whom have you here, that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:9 - His rock shall pass away in terror,
and his officers desert the standard in panic,”
declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion,
and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2 - Each will be like a hiding place from the wind,
a shelter from the storm,
like streams of water in a dry place,
like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:16 - he will dwell on the heights;
his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks;
his bread will be given him; his water will be sure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - you who burn with lust among the oaks,[fn]
under every green tree,
who slaughter your children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:3 - O LORD, do not your eyes look for truth?
You have struck them down,
but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
but they refused to take correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
they have refused to repent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:4 - “Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:16 - “Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the LORD, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:29 - Is not my word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 - “Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,
O inhabitants of Moab!
Be like the dove that nests
in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16 - The horror you inspire has deceived you,
and the pride of your heart,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,[fn]
who hold the height of the hill.
Though you make your nest as high as the eagle’s,
I will bring you down from there,
declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:25 - “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,
declares the LORD,
which destroys the whole earth;
I will stretch out my hand against you,
and roll you down from the crags,
and make you a burnt mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:7 - For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:8 - To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4 - They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.

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