H5553 · סֶלַע
çelaʻ · seh'-lah · rock, strong hold, stone
H5553 (çelaʻ, pronounced seh'-lah) is the Hebrew word סֶלַע in Strong’s dictionary: a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress). It appears 58 times in 52 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- סֶלַע (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- çelaʻ
- Pronunciation
- seh'-lah
- Derivation
- from an unused root meaning to be lofty;
- Definition
- a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)
- Rendered in the KJV
- (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
58 occurrences in 52 verses (54 with English words of their own, 4 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “rock” ×7
- “of the rocks” ×6
- “the rock” ×6
- “the cliffs” ×3
- “a rock” ×2
- “among the rocks” ×2
- “are my rock” ×2
- “at the rock” ×2
By book
Numbers 4 · Deuteronomy 1 · Judges 7 · 1 Samuel 3 · 2 Samuel 1 · 1 Kings 1 · 2 Chronicles 1 · Nehemiah 1 · Job 2 · Psalms 9 · Proverbs 1 · Song of Solomon 1 · Isaiah 7 · Jeremiah 7 · Ezekiel 4 · Amos 1 · Obadiah 1
First 30 of 52 verses
- Numbers 20:8
- Numbers 20:10
- Numbers 20:11
- Numbers 24:21
- Deuteronomy 32:13
- Judges 6:20
- Judges 15:8
- Judges 15:11
- Judges 15:13
- Judges 20:45
- Judges 20:47
- Judges 21:13
- 1 Samuel 13:6
- 1 Samuel 14:4
- 1 Samuel 23:25
- 2 Samuel 22:2
- 1 Kings 19:11
- 2 Chronicles 25:12
- Nehemiah 9:15
- Job 39:1
- Job 39:28
- Psalms 18:2
- Psalms 31:3
- Psalms 40:2
- Psalms 42:9
- Psalms 71:3
- Psalms 78:16
- Psalms 104:18
- Psalms 137:9
- Psalms 141:6
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H5553.