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)


  • Numbers 20:11 - lifted up And Moses his hand he smote the rock and with his rod twice came out and the water abundantly drank and the congregation and their beasts

  • Numbers 24:21 - And he looked on the Kenites and took up his parable and said Strong is thy dwellingplace and thou puttest in a rock thy nest

  • Obadiah 1:3 - The pride in his heart hath deceived thee thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock is high thee thou that dwellest that saith in his heart Who shall bring me down to the ground

  • Proverbs 30:26 - The conies folk are but a feeble yet make in the rocks they their houses

  • Psalms 18:2 - The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer my God my strength in whom I will trust my buckler and the horn of my salvation and my high tower

  • Psalms 31:3 - For thou art my rock and my fortress therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide

  • Psalms 40:2 - He brought me up pit also out of an horrible clay out of the miry and set upon a rock my feet and established my goings

  • Psalms 42:9 - I will say unto God my rock Why hast thou forgotten I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy

  • Psalms 71:3 - Be thou my strong habitation resort whereunto I may continually thou hast given commandment to save me for thou art my rock and my fortress

  • Psalms 78:16 - He brought streams also out of the rock to run down like rivers and caused waters

  • Psalms 104:18 - hills The high for the wild goats and the rocks are a refuge for the conies

  • Psalms 137:9 - Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones

  • Psalms 141:6 - are overthrown places in stony When their judges they shall hear my words for they are sweet

  • Song of Solomon 2:14 - O my dove that art in the clefts of the rock in the secret places of the stairs let me see and thy countenance let me hear is thy voice is thy voice for sweet and thy countenance is comely