Word Study · Strong's H5555 · Hebrew
סֶלַע הַמַּחְלְקוֹת
Sela ham-machleqoth
seh'-lah hammakh-lek-oth'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Çelaʻ ham-machlᵉqôwth
“Sela-ham-Machlekoth, a place in Palestine”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Sela-ham-Machlekoth, a place in Palestine
Rendered in the KJV as
Sela-hammalekoth.
- 2occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 2inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 2 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 2
- הַֽמַּחְלְקֽוֹת׃1
- סֶ֖לַע1
How it is rendered · 2
- Hammahlekoth1
- Sela1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
- proper noun (a name)1
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- HNcmsc · 1
- HNpl · 1
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The ledger of occurrences
1 Samuel2 occurrences
- 1 Samuel 23:28סֶ֖לַעsela'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)So Saul broke off his pursuit of David and went to meet the Philistines. That is why that place is called Sela-hammahlekoth.here: Sela
- 1 Samuel 23:28הַֽמַּחְלְקֽוֹת׃hamachlekotproper noun (a name)So Saul broke off his pursuit of David and went to meet the Philistines. That is why that place is called Sela-hammahlekoth.here: Hammahlekoth