1. crag, cliff, rock a. crag, cliff b. as stronghold of Jehovah, of security (fig.)
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be lofty
TWOT: 1508a
Parts of Speech: Noun Masculine TBESH:
סֶ֫לַע
se.la
H:N-M
crag
1) crag, cliff, rock 1a) crag, cliff 1b) as stronghold of Jehovah, of security (fig.)
H5554 סלע sela‛סלע
sela‛
seh'-lah
The same as H5553; Sela, the rock city of Idumaea
KJV Usage: rock, Sela (-h).
H5555 סלע המּחלקות sela‛ hammachle qôthסלע המּחלקות
sela‛ hammachle qôth
seh'-lahham-makh-lek-oth'
From H5553 and the plural of H4256 with the article interposed; rockofthedivisions; SelahamMachlekoth, a place in Palestine
KJV Usage: Sela-hammalekoth.
H5556 סלעם sol‛âmסלעם
sol‛âm
sol-awm'
Apparently from the same as H5553 in the sense of crushing as with a rock, that is, consuming; a kind of locust (from its destructiveness)