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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 BoxNum 20:8 - Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aharon your brother, and speak you to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their cattle drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:10 - Moshe and Aharon gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you forth water out of this rock?

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:21 - He looked at the Keni, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is your dwelling-place, 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 eretz, He ate the increase of the field; He made him to suck honey out of the rock, Oil out of the flinty rock;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:36 - The border of the Amori was from the ascent of `Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:20 - The angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth. He did so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8 - He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of `Etam.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then three thousand men of Yehudah went down to the cleft of the rock of `Etam, and said to Shimshon, "Don't you know that the Pelishtim are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" 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 spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you. 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 - They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them to Gid`om, and struck of them two thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47 - But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:13 - The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Binyamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed shalom to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6 - When the men of Yisra'el saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:4 - Between the passes, by which Yonatan sought to go over to the Pelishtim' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Botzetz, and the name of the other Senneh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:25 - Sha'ul and his men went to seek him. They told David: why he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Ma`on. When Sha'ul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Ma`on.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:2 - and he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:11 - He said, Go forth, and stand on the mountain before the LORD. 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 - other ten thousand did the children of Yehudah carry away alive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:15 - and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded those who they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:1 - "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:28 - On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, On the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:2

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:3 - For you are my rock and my fortress, Therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 - He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, And gave me a firm place to stand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:9 - I will ask 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 always go. Give 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 brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run 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 - Happy shall he be, Who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 141:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:6 - Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:26

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:14 - My dove in the clefts of the rock, In the hiding places of the mountainside, 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 go into the caverns of the rocks, And into the clefts of the ragged rocks, From before the terror of the LORD, And from the glory of his majesty, When he arises to shake the eretz mightily.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:19 - They shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all thorn-hedges, and on all pastures.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:16 - "What are you doing here? and who has you here, that you have hewed out a tomb here? Cutting him out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:9 - His rock shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, says the LORD, whose fire is in Tziyon, and his furnace in Yerushalayim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2 - A man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as 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 shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the 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, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:4 - Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your loins, and arise, go to the Perat, 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 will send for many fishermen, says the LORD, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from 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 - Isn't my word like fire? says 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 - You inhabitants of Mo'av, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16 - As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:25 - Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says the LORD, which destroy all the eretz; and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:7 - For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:8 - That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:4

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

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