BDB5622 [H5553]

1. literally cliff, crag Judg 6:20; Isa 2:21; Isa 7:19; Amos 6:12; Num 20:8 (twice in verse); Num 20:10 (twice in verse); Num 20:11(compare Neh 9:15; Ps 78:16, and contrast the צוּר of Exod 17:6), Num 24:21; Deut 32:13 (not elsewhere Hexateuch), + 10 t.; ׳שֵׁן הַסּ 1Sam 14:4 (twice in verse) tooth of the crag, i.e. sharp crag, so Job 39:28 excavated in cliff as place of burial Isa 22:16 abode of wild animals, ׳יַעֲלֵיסֿ vIsa 22:1, compare Ps 104:18; Prov 30:26, of birds Job 39:28; Song 2:14 (in figurative), compare Jer 48:28, so of Edom Obad 1:3 = Jer 49:16 compare (Num 24:21 above and) Isa 42:11 particular cliffs are: עֵיטָם ׳ס Judg 15:8; Judg 15:11 compare vJudg 15:13, (הָ)רִמּוֺן ׳ס Judg 20:45; Judg 20:47 (twice in verse); Judg 21:13 הַמַּחְלְקוֺת ׳ס 1Sam 23:28 compare v1Sam 23:25 see also II. סֶלַע.

2. figurative, especially סַלְעִי of ׳י (only Psalms), Ps 18:3 = 2Sam 22:2; Ps 31:4; Ps 42:10; Ps 71:3 of Assyrian god Isa 31:9 (probably; compare צוּר Deut 32:31; Deut 32:37); כָּבֵד ׳צֵל ס Isa 32:2 (simile of protecting care); figurative of security Ps 40:3 (feet on cliff), מְצָדוֺת סְלָעִים מִשְׂגַּבּוֺ Isa 33:16 symbol of obstinacy ׳חִזְּקוּ פְנֵיהֶם מִסּ Jer 5:3 ׳צְחִיחַ ס (bare cliff, literally glare of [the] cliff), in figure of openness, flagrancy Ezek 24:7; Ezek 24:8, of razed city Ezek 26:4; Ezek 26:14 (only here Ezekiel); in figure of fall of Babylonian Jer 51:25.