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# סֶלַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5554

**rock** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

rock [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5554/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סֶ֫לַע²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5554/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in Edom, מֵהַסּ׳ Ju 1:36 (del. מֵ, cf. GFM); הַסּ׳ captured in war 2 K 14:7 (and called יָקְתְאֵל); מִסּ׳ Is 16:1; site dub.; old identif. with Petra denied, plausibly, by BuhlEdom GFM Ju 1:36 (who thinks of an actual cliff), but held Benz 2 K 14:7 BdPal (1898), 206; 𝔊 (ἡ) πέτρα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Sela (3); of Sela (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 16:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.1/#tree)

שִׁלְחוּ־כַ֥ר מֹשֵֽׁל־אֶ֖רֶץ מִסֶּ֣לַע מִדְבָּ֑רָה אֶל־הַ֖ר בַּת־צִיּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* send a.lamb \[the\].ruler of.\[the\].land from Sela wilderness to.\[the\] to the.mountain of.the.daughter of.Zion

*JPS 1917:* Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from the crags that are toward the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

[Judges 1:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.36/#tree)

וּגְבוּל֙ הָאֱמֹרִ֔י מִֽמַּעֲלֵ֖ה עַקְרַבִּ֑ים מֵהַסֶּ֖לַע וָמָֽעְלָה׃פ

*Word for word:* and the.border of the.Amorite\[s\] \[was\].from.\[the\] ascent of.scorpions from (the) Sela and upward upwards

*JPS 1917:* And the border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela, and upward.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5554.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5554/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).