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Lexicon :: Strong's H5553 - selaʿ

Aa
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
Dictionary Aids

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 BoxNum 20:8 - Take the rod, you and Aaron, your brother, and make all the people come together, and before their eyes give orders to the rock to give out its water; and so make water come out of the rock for them, and give the people and their cattle drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:10 - Then Moses and Aaron made the people come together in front of the rock, and he said to them, Give ear now, you people whose hearts are turned from the Lord; are we to get water for you out of the rock?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:11 - And lifting up his hand, Moses gave the rock two blows with his rod: and water came streaming out, and the people and their cattle had drink enough.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:21 - And looking on the Kenites he went on with his story and said, Strong is your living-place, and your secret place is safe in the rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:36 - And the limit of the Edomites went from the slope of Akrabbim from Sela and up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 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 down on the rock over there, draining out the soup over them. And he did so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8 - And he made an attack on them, driving them in uncontrolled flight, and causing great destruction; then he went away to his safe place in the crack of the rock at Etam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then three thousand of the men of Judah went down to the crack of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Is it not clear to you that the Philistines are our rulers? What is this you have done to us? And he said to them, I only did to them as they did to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:13 - And they said, No; we will take you and give you up into their hands, but truly we will not put you to death. So knotting two new cords round him they took him up from the rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - And turning, they went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land: and on the highways five thousand of them were cut off by the men of Israel, who, pushing on hard after them to Geba, put to death two thousand more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47 - But six hundred men, turning back, went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land, and were living on the rock of Rimmon for four months.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:13 - And all the meeting sent to the men of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, offering them peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6 - When the men of Israel saw the danger they were in, (for the people were troubled,) they took cover in cracks in the hillsides and in the woods and in rocks and holes and hollows.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:4 - Now between the narrow roads over the mountains by which Jonathan was making his way to the Philistines' forces, there was a sharp overhanging rock on one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: one was named Bozez and the other Seneh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:25 - And Saul and his men went in search of him. And David had word of it, so he came down to the rock in the waste land of Maon. And Saul, hearing of this, went after David into the waste land of Maon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:2 - And he said, The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour, even mine;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:11 - Then he said, Go out and take your place on the mountain before the Lord. Then the Lord went by, and mountains were parted by the force of a great wind, and rocks were broken before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind there was an earth-shock, but the Lord was not in the earth-shock.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:12 - And ten thousand more the children of Israel took living, and made them go up to the top of the rock, pushing them down from the top of the rock so that their bodies were broken by the fall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:15 - And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:1 - Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:28 - On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2 - The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:3 - For you are my Rock and my strong tower; go in front of me and be my guide, because of your name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 - He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:9 - I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:3 - Be my strong Rock, the strong place of my salvation; for you are my Rock, and my safe place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:16 - He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:18 - The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:9 - Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:6 - When destruction comes to their judges by the side of the rock, they will give ear to my words, for they are sweet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:26 - The conies are only a feeble people, but they make their houses in the rocks;

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:14 - O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21 - To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:19 - And they will come, covering all the waste valleys, and the holes of the rocks, and the thorns, and all the watering-places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:16 - Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:9 - And his rock will come to nothing because of fear, and his chiefs will go in flight from the flag, says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his altar in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2 - And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:16 - He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:3 - O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:4 - Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:16 - See, I will send for great numbers of fishermen, says the Lord, and they will take them like fish in a net; and after that, I will send for numbers of bowmen, and they will go after them, driving them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:29 - Is not my word like fire? says the Lord; and like a hammer, smashing the rock to bits?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 - O people of Moab, go away from the towns and take cover in the rock; be like the dove of the Arabah, which makes her living-place in holes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16 - ... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:25 - See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:7 - For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:8 - In order that it might make wrath come up to give punishment, she has put her blood on the open rock, so that it may not be covered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4 - And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock

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