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title: סֶלַע — rock · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סֶלַע (5554), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: rock. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סֶלַע

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«סֶלַע» in the Tanakh dictionary: **rock** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 5554 · **BDB:** סֶ֫לַע²

### Glosses

Sela (3); of.Sela (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סֶלַע» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5554/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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