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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:8 - “Take the staff; and you and your brother Aaron assemble the congregation and speak to the rock H5553 before their eyes, that it shall yield its water. So you shall bring water for them out of the rock H5553, and have the congregation and their livestock drink.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:10 - and Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly in front of the rock H5553. And he said to them, “Listen now, you rebels; shall we bring water for you out of this rock H5553?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:11 - Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock H5553 twice with his staff; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their livestock drank.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:21 -

And he looked at the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said,

“Your dwelling place is enduring,

And your nest is set in the cliff H5553.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 -

“He had him ride on the high places of the earth,

And he ate the produce of the field;

And He had him suck honey from the rock H5553,

And [fn]oil from the flinty rock,

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:36 - The border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:20 - And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread and lay them on this rock H5553, and pour out the broth.” And he did so.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8 - So he struck them [fn]ruthlessly with a great slaughter; and afterward he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock H5553 of Etam.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock H5553 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, “Just as they did to me, so I have done to them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:13 - So they said to [fn]him, “No, but we will bind you tightly and give you into their hands; but we certainly will not kill you.” Then they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock H5553.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - [fn]The rest turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock H5553 of Rimmon, but they [fn]caught five thousand of them on the roads and overtook them [fn]at Gidom, and [fn]killed two thousand of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47 - But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock H5553 of Rimmon; and they remained at the rock H5553 of Rimmon for four months.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:13 -

Then the whole congregation sent word and spoke to the sons of Benjamin who were at the rock H5553 of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6 - When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard-pressed), then the people kept themselves hidden in caves, in crevices, in cliffs H5553, in crypts, and in pits.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:4 - Now between the gorges by which Jonathan sought to cross over to the Philistines’ garrison there was a rocky H5553 crag on the one side, and a rocky H5553 crag on the other side; and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other, Seneh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:25 - When Saul and his men went to seek him, they informed David, and he came down to the rock H5553 and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:2 - He said,

“The LORD is my [fn]rock H5553 and my fortress and my deliverer;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:11 -

So He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD.” And behold, the LORD was passing by! And a great and powerful wind was tearing out the mountains and breaking the rocks H5553 in pieces before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:12 - The sons of Judah also captured ten thousand alive and brought them to the top of the cliff H5553, and threw them down from the top of the cliff H5553 so that they were all dashed to pieces.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:15 -

“You provided bread from heaven for them for their hunger,

You brought out water from a rock H5553 for them for their thirst,

And You told them to enter in order to take possession of

The land which You [fn]swore to give them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:1 -

“Do you know the time the [fn]mountain H5553 goats give birth?

Do you observe the calving of the deer?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:28 -

“He dwells and spends his nights on the cliff H5553,

On the rocky H5553 cliff, an inaccessible place.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2 -

The LORD is my rock H5553 and my fortress and my savior,

My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;

My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:3 -

For You are my rock H5553 and my fortress;

For the sake of Your name You will lead me and guide me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 -

He brought me up out of the pit of [fn]destruction, out of the mud;

And He set my feet on a rock H5553, making my footsteps firm.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:9 -

I will say to God my rock H5553, “Why have You forgotten me?

Why do I go about mourning [fn]because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:3 -

Be to me a rock of dwelling to which I may continually come;

You have given the commandment to save me,

For You are my rock H5553 and my fortress.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:16 -

He brought forth streams from the rock H5553

And made waters run down like rivers.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:18 -

The high mountains are for the wild goats;

The cliffs H5553 are a refuge for the rock hyrax.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:9 -

Blessed will be one who seizes and dashes your children

Against the rock H5553.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:6 -

Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock H5553,

And they hear my words, for they are pleasant.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:26 -

The rock hyraxes are not a mighty people,

Yet they make their houses in the rocks H5553;

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:14 -

The Groom

“My dove, in the clefts of the [fn]rock H5553,

In the hiding place of the mountain pathway,

Let me see [fn]how you look,

Let me hear your voice;

For your voice is pleasant,

And [fn]you look delightful.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21 -

In order to go into the clefts of the rocks and the crannies of the cliffs H5553

Before the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty,

When He arises to terrify the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:19 - They will all come and settle on the steep [fn]ravines, on the ledges of the cliffs H5553, on all the thorn bushes, and on all the watering places.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:16 -

‘What right do you have here,

And whom do you have here,

That you have cut out a tomb for yourself here,

You who cut out a tomb on the height,

You who carve a resting place for [fn]yourself in the rock H5553?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:9 -

“His rock H5553 will pass away because of panic,

And his officers will be terrified by the flag,”

Declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2 -

Each will be like a refuge from the wind

And a shelter from the storm,

Like [fn]streams of water in a dry country,

Like the shade of a [fn]huge rock H5553 in an exhausted land.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:16 -

He will dwell on the heights,

His refuge will be the [fn]impregnable rock H5553;

His bread will be given him,

His water will be sure.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 -

Who inflame yourselves among the oaks,

Under every luxuriant tree,

Who slaughter the children in the [fn]ravines,

Under the clefts of the rocks H5553?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:3 -

LORD, do Your eyes not look for honesty?

You have struck them,

But they did not [fn]weaken;

You have consumed them,

But they refused to accept discipline.

They have made their faces harder than rock H5553;

They have refused to repent.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:4 - “Take the undergarment that you bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a crevice of the rock H5553.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:16 -

“Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the LORD, “and they will fish for them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks H5553.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:29 - “Is My word not like fire?” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer which shatters a rock H5553?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 -

“Leave the cities and live among the rocky H5553 cliffs H5553,

You inhabitants of Moab,

And be like a dove that nests

Beyond the mouth of the chasm.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16 -

“As for the terror you cause,

The arrogance of your heart has deceived you,

You who live in the clefts of [fn]the rock H5553,

Who occupy the height of the hill.

Though you make your nest as high as an eagle’s,

I will bring you down from there,” declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:25 -

“Behold, I am against you, mountain of destruction

That destroys the whole earth,” declares the LORD,

“And I will stretch out My hand against you,

And roll you down from the rocky H5553 cliffs H5553,

And I will make you a burnt out mountain.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:7 -

“For her blood is in her midst;

She placed it on the bare rock H5553;

She did not pour it on the ground

To cover it with dust.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:8 -

“So that it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance,

I have put her blood on the bare rock H5553,

So that it will not be covered.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4 - ‘They will destroy the walls of Tyre and tear down her towers; and I will sweep her debris away from her and make her a bare rock H5553.

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