H5553 סֶלַע
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 60 KJV occurrences
סֶלַע
çelaʻ · seh'-lah
Definition
a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)
KJV Renderings
(ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.
Derivation / Etymology
from an unused root meaning to be lofty;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 60)
- Numbers 20:8Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
- Judges 1:36And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
- Judges 21:13And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.
- 2 Chronicles 25:12And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.
- Psalms 40:2He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
- Proverbs 30:26The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
- Isaiah 42:11Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
- Jeremiah 49:16Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.