Strong Hebrew #5554 - סֶלַע Sela (a city in Edom)
| Original Word: | סֶלַע |
| Transliteration: | Sela |
| Definition: | a city in Edom |
| Part of Speech: | Proper Name Location |
| Phonetic Spelling: | (seh'-lah) |
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
rock, Selah
The same as cela'; Sela, the rock-city of Idumaea -- rock, Sela(-h).
see HEBREW cela'
Englishman's Concordance
Sela=“the rock”
1) a place in Edom
1a) perhaps an early name for ‘Petra’
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: the same as H5553
Brown-Driver-Briggs
II.
סֶ֫לַעproper name, of a locationin Edom,
׳מֵהַהַסּJudges 1:36 (strike out
מֵ, compare GFM);
׳הַסּ captured in war
2 Kings 14:7 (and called
יָקְתְאֵל);
׳מִסּIsaiah 16:1; site dubious; old identification with
Petra denied, plausibly, by Buhl
Edom GFM
Ju, 36 (who thinks of an actual
cliff), but held Benz
2Kings 14:7 Bd
Pal (1898), 206;
ᵐ5 (
ἡ)
πέτρα.
Englishman's Concordance (References)
Strong's Hebrew: 5554. סֶ֫לַע (Sela) — 3 Occurrences
2 Kings 14:7
HEB:וְתָפַ֥שׂ אֶת־ הַסֶּ֖לַע בַּמִּלְחָמָ֑ה וַיִּקְרָ֤א
NAS: 10000and took Sela by war, and named
KJV: and took Selah by war,
INT: thousand and took Sela war and called
Isaiah 16:1
HEB:מֹשֵֽׁל־ אֶ֖רֶץ מִסֶּ֣לַע מִדְבָּ֑רָה אֶל־
NAS: of the land, From Sela by way of the wilderness
KJV: of the land from Sela to the wilderness,
INT: to the ruler of the land Sela of the wilderness to
Isaiah 42:11
HEB:יָרֹ֙נּוּ֙ יֹ֣שְׁבֵי סֶ֔לַע מֵרֹ֥אשׁ הָרִ֖ים
INT: sing the inhabitants rock the tops of the mountains