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HebrewH5555Noun

סֶלַע הַמַּחְלְקוֹת

se.la ham.mach.le.qot

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H5555Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Sela-ham-Machlekoth, a place in Palestine

from H5553 (סֶלַע) and the plural of H4256 (מַחֲלֹקֶת) with the article interposed; rock of the divisions;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Sela-hammahlekoth = "the cliff of escapes" or "the cliff of divisions" a rock or cliff in the wilderness of Maon, southeast of Hebron, the scene of an escape of David from Saul

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

סֶלַע הַמַּחְלְקוֹת appears 1 time in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Samuel
1

Key Passages

1 Samuel 23:28BSB

So Saul broke off his pursuit of David and went to meet the Philistines. That is why that place is called Sela-hammahlekoth.

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