H5553 - סֶלַע (çelaʻ)

H5553 סֶלַע (çelaʻ) seh'-lah

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

rock

Strong's Definition

a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)

Derivation: from an unused root meaning to be lofty;

KJV Usage: (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.

TWOT Reference: 1508a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) crag, cliff, rock

1a) crag, cliff

1b) as stronghold of Jehovah, of security (fig.)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G2911 G4073 G4733

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

The Rock Sela (H5554)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

סֶלַע sela‛ BDB Definition: 1) crag, cliff, rock 1a) crag, cliff 1b) as stronghold of Jehovah, of security (figuratively) Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from an unused root meaning to be lofty Same Word by TWOT Number: 1508a Total KJV Occurrences: 61

Bible Occurrences (51)

20:8 20:10 20:11 24:21

32:13

6:20 15:8 15:11 15:13 20:45 20:47 21:13

13:6 14:4 23:25

22:2

19:11

25:12

9:15

39:1 39:28

18:2 31:3 40:2 42:9 71:3 78:16 104:18 137:9 141:6

30:26

2:21 7:19 22:16 31:9 32:2 33:16 57:5

5:3 13:4 16:16 23:29 48:28 49:16 51:25

24:7 24:8 26:4 26:14

6:12

1:3

Numbers 20:8

Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and their livestock.

Numbers 20:10

Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly in front of the rock, and [Moses] said to them, Listen now, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?

Numbers 20:11

Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the congregation and their livestock were able to drink.

Numbers 24:21

Next he saw the Kenites and lifted up an oracle, saying: Your dwelling place is secure, and your nest is set in a cliff.

Deuteronomy 32:13

He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,

Judges 6:20

And the angel of God said to him, Take the meat and the unleavened bread, lay [them] on this rock, and pour out the broth. And [Gideon] did so.

Judges 15:8

And he struck them ruthlessly...... with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.

Judges 15:11

In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What... have you done to us? I have done to them what they did to me, he replied.