Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H5554
סֶלַע
Selaseh'-lah
Sela
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Çelaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5554is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5554
Sela, the rock-city of Idumaea
The King James renders it: rock, Sela(-h).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Sela is rendered "Sela". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 1:36And the border of the Amorites extended from the Ascent of Akrabbim to Sela and beyond.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
And the border of the Amorites extended from the Ascent of Akrabbim to Sela and beyond.
Judges 1:36מֵהַסֶּ֖לַע
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- from Sela1
- from the Sela1
- Sela1
- the Sela1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| סֶלַע | sela | rock | Uses58 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַסֶּ֖לַע1
- מֵהַסֶּ֖לַע1
- מִסֶּ֣לַע1
- סֶ֔לַע1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npl
- preposition + the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)1HR/Td/Npl
- the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)1HTd/Npl
Judges
one use
And the border of the Amorites extended from the Ascent of Akrabbim to Sela and beyond.
- מֵהַסֶּ֖לַעmehasela'preposition + the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: from the Sela
2 Kings
one use
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.
- הַסֶּ֖לַעhasela'the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Sela
Isaiah
two uses
Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.
- מִסֶּ֣לַעmisela'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Sela
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.
- סֶ֔לַעsela'noun · masculine singulartagged: Sela
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.