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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 - 'Take the rod, and assemble the company, thou and Aaron thy brother; and ye have spoken unto the rock before their eyes, and it hath given its water, and thou hast brought out to them water from the rock, and hast watered the company, and their beasts.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:10 - and Moses and Aaron assemble the assembly unto the front of the rock, and he saith to them, 'Hear, I pray you, O rebels, from this rock do we bring out to you water?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:11 - and Moses lifteth up his hand, and smiteth the rock with his rod twice; and much water cometh out, and the company drink, also their beasts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:21 - And he seeth the Kenite, and taketh up his simile, and saith: 'Enduring is thy dwelling, And setting in a rock thy nest,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He maketh him ride on high places of earth, And he eateth increase of the fields, And He maketh him suck honey from a rock, And oil out of the flint of a rock;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:36 - and the border of the Amorite is 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 - And the messenger of God saith unto him, 'Take the flesh and the unleavened things, and place on this rock -- and the broth pour out;' and he doth so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8 - And he smiteth them hip and thigh -- a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of the rock Etam.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - And three thousand men of Judah go down unto the cleft of the rock Etam, and say to Samson, 'Hast thou now known that the Philistines are rulers over us? and what is this thou hast done to us?' And he saith to them, 'As they did to me, so I did to them.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:13 - And they speak to him, saying, No, but we certainly bind thee, and have given thee into their hand, and we certainly do not put thee to death;' and they bind him with two thick bands, new ones, and bring him up from the rock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - and they turn and flee toward the wilderness, unto the rock of Rimmon; and they glean of them in the highways five thousand men, and follow after them unto Gidom, and smite of them two thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:47 - and there turn and flee into the wilderness, unto the rock of Rimmon six hundred men, and they dwell in the rock Rimmon four months.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:13 - And all the company send, and speak, unto the sons of Benjamin who are in the rock Rimmon, and proclaim to them peace;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6 - And the men of Israel have seen that they are distressed, that the people hath been oppressed, and the people hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:4 - And between the passages where Jonathan sought to pass over unto the station of the Philistines is the edge of a rock on the one side, and the edge of a rock on the other side, and the name of the one is 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 go to seek, and they declare to David, and he goeth down the rock, and abideth in the wilderness of Maon; and Saul heareth, and pursueth after David to the wilderness of Maon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:2 - and he saith: 'Jehovah is my rock, And my bulwark, and a deliverer to me,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:11 - And He saith, 'Go out, and thou hast stood in the mount before Jehovah.' And lo, Jehovah is passing by, and a wind -- great and strong -- is rending mountains, and shivering rocks before Jehovah: -- not in the wind is Jehovah; and after the wind a shaking: -- not in the shaking is Jehovah;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 25:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:12 - And ten thousand alive have the sons of Judah taken captive, and they bring them to the top of the rock, and cast them from the top of the rock, and all of them have been broken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:15 - and bread from the heavens Thou hast given to them for their hunger, and water from a rock hast brought out to them for their thirst, and dost say to them to go in to possess the land that Thou hast lifted up Thy hand to give to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:1 - Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:28 - A rock he doth inhabit, Yea, he lodgeth on the tooth of a rock, and fortress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2 - Jehovah is my rock, and my bulwark, And my deliverer, My God is my rock, I trust in Him: My shield, and a horn of my salvation, My high tower.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:3 - For my rock and my bulwark art Thou, For Thy name's sake lead me and tend me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 - And He doth cause me to come up From a pit of desolation -- from mire of mud, And He raiseth up on a rock my feet, He is establishing my steps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:9 - I say to God my rock, 'Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning in the oppression of an enemy?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:3 - Be to me for a rock -- a habitation, To go in continually, Thou hast given command to save me, For my rock and my bulwark art Thou.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:16 - And bringeth out streams from a rock, And causeth waters to come down as rivers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:18 - The high hills are for wild goats, Rocks are a refuge for conies,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:9 - O the happiness of him who doth seize, And hath dashed thy sucklings on the rock!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 141:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:6 - Their judges have been released by the sides of a rock, And they have heard my sayings, For they have been pleasant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:26 - Conies are a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house,

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:14 - My dove, in clefts of the rock, In a secret place of the ascent, Cause me to see thine appearance, Cause me to hear thy voice, For thy voice is sweet, and thy appearance comely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21 - To enter into cavities of the rocks, And into clefts of the high places, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency, In His rising to terrify the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:19 - And they have come, and rested all of them in the desolate valleys, And in holes of the rocks, and on all the thorns, And on all the commendable things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:16 - What -- to thee here? And who -- to thee here? That thou hast hewn out to thee here -- a sepulchre? Hewing on high his sepulchre, Graving in a rock a dwelling for himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:9 - And to his rock from fear he passeth on, And affrighted by the ensign have been his princes -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Who hath a light in Zion, And who hath a furnace in Jerusalem!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2 - And each hath been as a hiding-place from wind, And as a secret hiding-place from inundation, As rivulets of waters in a dry place, As a shadow of a heavy rock in a weary land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:16 - He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock are his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - Who are inflamed among oaks, under every green tree, Slaughtering the children in valleys, Under clefts of the rocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:3 - Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:4 - 'Take the girdle that thou hast got, that is on thy loins, and rise, go to Phrat, and hide it there in a hole of the rock;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:16 - Lo, I am sending for many fishers, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they have fished them, And after this I send for many hunters, And they have hunted them from off every mountain, And from off every hill, and from holes of the rocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:29 - Is it not thus? My word is as a fire, An affirmation of Jehovah. And as a hammer -- it breaketh in pieces a rock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 - Forsake cities, and dwell in a rock, Ye inhabitants of Moab, And be as a dove making a nest in the passages of a pit's mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16 - Thy terribleness hath lifted thee up, The pride of thy heart, O dweller in clefts of the rock, Holding the high place of the height, For thou makest high as an eagle thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:25 - Lo, I am against thee, O destroying mount, An affirmation of Jehovah, That is destroying all the earth, And I have stretched out My hand against thee, And I have rolled thee from the rocks, And given thee for a burnt mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:7 - For her blood in her midst hath been, On a clear place of a rock she hath set it, She hath not poured it on the earth, To cover it over with dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:8 - To cause fury to come up to take vengeance, I have put her blood on a clear place of a rock -- not to be covered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4 - And they have destroyed the walls of Tyre, And they have broken down her towers, And I have scraped her dust from her, And made her for a clear place of a rock.

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