Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H5553: סֶלַע (çelaʻ) Definition

Strong's number
H5553
Lemma
סֶלַע
Transliteration
çelaʻ
Pronunciation
seh'-lah
Strong's definition
a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress) (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold. from an unused root meaning to be lofty;

54 instances of the word סֶלַע çelaʻ (H5553)


  • Jeremiah 5:3 - O LORD are not thine eyes upon the truth thou hast stricken them but they have not grieved thou hast consumed them but they have refused to receive correction harder they have made their faces than a rock them but they have refused to return

  • Jeremiah 13:4 - Take the girdle that thou hast got which is upon thy loins and arise to Euphrates and hide it there in a hole of the rock

  • Jeremiah 16:16 - Behold I will send fishers for many saith the LORD and they shall fish them and after Behold I will send for many hunters and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks

  • Jeremiah 23:29 - like Is not my word as a fire saith the LORD and like a hammer in pieces the rock

  • Jeremiah 48:28 - leave the cities and dwell in the rock O ye that dwell in Moab and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides mouth of the hole's

  • Jeremiah 49:16 - Thy 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 as high as the eagle though thou shouldest make thy nest I will bring thee down from thence saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 51:25 - mountain Behold I am against thee O destroying saith the LORD which destroyest all the earth and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee and roll thee down from the rocks and will make mountain thee a burnt

  • Job 39:1 - Knowest thou the time bring forth when the wild goats of the rock do calve when the hinds or canst thou mark

  • Job 39:28 - of the rock She dwelleth and abideth upon the crag of the rock and the strong place

  • Judges 1:36 - And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim from the rock and upward

  • Judges 6:20 - said And the angel of God unto him Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes and lay rock them upon this the broth and pour out And he did

  • Judges 15:8 - And he smote them hip and thigh slaughter with a great and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam

  • Judges 15:11 - went Then three thousand men of Judah to the top of the rock Etam and said to Samson Knowest are rulers thou not that the Philistines over us what is this that thou hast done and said over us what is this that thou hast done over us what is this that thou hast done

  • Judges 15:13 - And they spake And they spake No but we will bind No but we will bind and deliver thee into their hand but surely but surely No but we will bind him with two cords new and brought him up from the rock

  • Judges 20:45 - And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men and pursued hard after them unto Gidom and slew thousand men

  • Judges 20:47 - turned and fled to the wilderness in the rock Rimmon But six hundred men and abode in the rock Rimmon four months

  • Judges 21:13 - sent And the whole congregation some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon and to call peaceably

  • Nehemiah 9:15 - them bread from heaven And gavest for their hunger water for them out of the rock and broughtest forth for their thirst and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn And gavest

  • Numbers 20:8 - Take the rod and gather so thou shalt give the congregation together thou and Aaron thy brother and speak out of the rock before their eyes and it shall give forth his water and thou shalt bring forth his water out of the rock drink so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts

  • Numbers 20:10 - gathered And Moses and Aaron the congregation together before out of this rock and he said unto them Hear now ye rebels out of this rock must we fetch you water