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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

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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

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:8 - Take thy rod, and call the assembly, thou and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye to the rock before them, and it shall give forth its waters; and ye shall bring forth for them water out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their cattle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:10 - And Moses and Aaron assembled the congregation before the rock, and said to them, Hear me, ye disobedient ones; must we bring you water out of this rock?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:11 - And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his rod twice; and much water came forth, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:21 - And having seen the Kenite, he took up his parable and said, Thy dwelling-place is strong; yet though thou shouldest put thy nest in a rock,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He brought them up on the strength of the land; he fed them with the fruits of the fields; they sucked honey out of the rock, and oil out of the solid rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:36 - And the border of the Amorite was from the going up of Acrabin, from the rock and upwards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:20 - And the angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and put them on that rock, and pour out the broth close by: and he did so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8 - And he smote them leg on thigh with a great overthrow; and went down and dwelt in a cave of the rock Etam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - And the three thousand men of Juda went down to the hole of the rock Etam, and they said to Sampson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? and what is this that thou hast done to us? and Sampson said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:13 - And they spoke to him, saying, Nay, but we will only bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand, and will by no means slay thee: and they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him from that rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - And the rest turned, and fled to the wilderness to the rock of Remmon; and the children of Israel [fn]picked off of them five thousand men; and the children of Israel went down after them as far as Gedan, and they smote of them two thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47 - And the rest turned, and fled to the wilderness to the rock of Remmon, even six hundred men; and they sojourned four months in the rock of Remmon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:13 - And all the congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin in the rock Remmon, and invited them to make peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6 - And the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait so that they could not draw [fn]nigh, and the people hid themselves in caves, and sheepfolds, and rocks, and ditches, and pits.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:4 - And in the midst of the passage whereby Jonathan sought to pass over to the encampment of the Philistines, there was both a sharp rock on this side, and a [fn]sharp rock on the other side: the name of the one was Bases, and the name of the other Senna.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:25 - And Saul and his men went to seek him: and they brought word to David, and he went down to the rock that was in the wilderness of Maon: and Saul heard, and followed after David to the wilderness of Maon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:2 - And the song was thus: O Lord, my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:11 - And he said, Thou shalt go forth to-morrow, and shalt stand before the Lord in the mount; behold, the Lord will pass by. And, behold, a great and strong wind rending the mountains, and crushing 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 Box2Ch 25:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:12 - And the children of Juda took ten thousand prisoners, and they carried them to the top of the precipice, and cast them headlong from the top of the precipice, and they were all dashed to pieces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:15 - And thou gavest them bread from heaven for their food, and thou broughtest them forth water from a rock for their thirst; and thou badest them go in to inherit the land over which thou stretchedst out thy hand to give it them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:1 - Say if thou knowest the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, and if thou hast marked the calving of the hinds:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:28 - on a crag of a rock, and in a secret place?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2 - (LXX 17:3) The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in him; he is my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:3 - (LXX 30:4) For thou art my strength and my refuge; and thou shalt guide me for thy name's sake, and maintain me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 - (LXX 39:3) And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:9 - (LXX 41:10) I will say to God, Thou art my helper; why hast thou forgotten me? wherefore do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:3 - (LXX 70:3) Be to me a protecting God, and a strong hold to save me: for thou art my fortress and my refuge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:16 - (LXX 77:16) And he brought water out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down as rivers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:18 - (LXX 103:18) The high mountains are a refuge for the stags, and the rock for the rabbits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:9 - (LXX 136:9) Blessed shall he be who shall seize and dash thine infants against the rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:6 - (LXX 140:6) Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:26 - the rabbits also are a feeble race, who make their houses in the rocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:14 - Thou art my dove, in the shelter of the rock, near the wall: shew me thy face, and cause me to hear thy voice; for thy voice is sweet, and thy countenance is beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21 - to enter into the caverns of the solid rock, and into the clefts of the rocks, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:19 - And they all shall enter into the clefts of the land, and into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves, and into every ravine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:16 - and what hast thou to do here, that thou hast here hewn thyself a sepulchre, and madest thyself a sepulchre on high, and hast graven for thyself a dwelling in the rock?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:9 - for they shall be compassed with rocks as with a trench, and shall be worsted; and he that flees shall be taken. Thus saith the Lord, Blessed is he that has a seed in Sion, and household friends in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2 - And a man shall hide his words, and be hidden, as from rushing water, and shall appear in Sion as a rushing river, glorious in a thirsty land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:16 - he shall dwell in a high cave of a strong rock: bread shall be given him, and his water shall be sure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - who call upon idols under the leafy trees, slaying [fn]your children in the valleys among the rocks?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:3 - O Lord, thine eyes are upon faithfulness: thou hast scourged them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:4 - Take the girdle that is upon thy loins, and arise, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:16 - Behold, I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send many hunters, and they shall hunt them upon every mountain, and upon every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:29 - Behold, are not my words as fire? saith the Lord; and as an axe cutting the rock?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 - (LXX 31:28) The inhabitants of Moab have left the cities, and dwelt in rocks; they have become as doves nestling in rocks, at the mouth of a cave.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16 - (LXX 30:10) Thine insolence has risen up against thee, the fierceness of thine heart has burst the holes of the rocks, it has seized upon the strength of a lofty hill; for as an eagle he set his nest on high: thence will I bring thee down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:25 - (LXX 28:25) Behold, I am against thee, the ruined mountain, that destroys the whole earth; and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will roll thee down upon the rocks, and will make thee as a burnt mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:7 - For her blood is in the midst of her; I have set it upon a smooth rock: I have not poured it out upon the earth, so that the earth should cover it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:8 - that my wrath should come up for complete vengeance to be taken: I set her blood upon a smooth rock, so as not to cover it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4 - And they shall cast down the walls of Sor, and shall cast down thy towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock.

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