H5553 Hebrew

סֶלַע

çelaʻ (seh'-lah)
a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)

KJV Translations of H5553

(ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.

Word Origin & Derivation

from an unused root meaning to be lofty;

H5553 in the King James Bible

54 verses
Amos 6:12 בַּסֶּ֙לַע֙

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

Deuteronomy 32:13 מִסֶּ֔לַע

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

Ezekiel 24:7 סֶ֖לַע

For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

Ezekiel 24:8 סָ֑לַע

That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.

Ezekiel 26:4 סָֽלַע׃

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

Ezekiel 26:14 סֶ֗לַע

And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

1 Kings 19:11 סְלָעִים֙

And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:

1 Samuel 13:6 וּבַסְּלָעִ֔ים

When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.

1 Samuel 14:4 הַסֶּ֥לַע

And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

1 Samuel 23:25 הַסֶּ֔לַע

Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.