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HebrewH5554Noun

סֶ֫לַע

se.la

4Occurrences
H5554Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Sela, the rock-city of Idumaea

the same as H5553 (סֶלַע);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Sela = "the rock" a place in Edom perhaps an early name for 'Petra'

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

סֶ֫לַע appears 4 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Isaiah
2
2 Kings
1
Judges
1

Key Passages

2 Kings 14:7BSB

Amaziah struck down 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He took Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this very day.

Isaiah 16:1BSB

Send the tribute lambsto the ruler of the land,from Sela in the desertto the mount of Daughter Zion.

Isaiah 42:11BSB

Let the desert and its cities raise their voices;let the villages of Kedar cry aloud.Let the people of Sela sing for joy;let them cry out from the mountaintops.

Judges 1:36BSB

And the border of the Amorites extended from the Ascent of Akrabbim to Sela and beyond.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.