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סֶלַע H5553

H5553 is the Hebrew word סֶלַע, transliterated çelaʻ and said seh'-lah. The King James Version most often renders it rock.

Word: סֶלַעTransliteration: çelaʻSaid: seh'-lahLanguage: HebrewIn the KJV: 45 verses

What it means

a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress).

Where it comes from

from an unused root meaning to be lofty.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 50 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

rock 34×rocks 6×out of the rock 3×art my rock 2×also out of the rock 1×stony 1×ragged rocks 1×strong hold 1×than a rock 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.

Verses using סֶלַע

The first 40 of 45 verses, quoted in full.

Numbers 20:8 · KJV

Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.

Numbers 20:10 · KJV

And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?

Numbers 20:11 · KJV

And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

Deuteronomy 32:13 · KJV

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;

Judges 1:36 · KJV

And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.

Judges 6:20 · KJV

And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.

Judges 15:8 · KJV

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

Judges 15:11 · KJV

Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

Judges 20:45 · KJV

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 two thousand men of them.

Judges 20:47 · KJV

But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.

Judges 21:13 · KJV

And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.

1 Samuel 13:6 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

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.

2 Samuel 22:2 · KJV

And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

1 Kings 19:11 · KJV

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:

2 Chronicles 25:12 · KJV

And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.

Nehemiah 9:15 · KJV

And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

Job 39:1 · KJV

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

Job 39:28 · KJV

She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.

Psalm 18:2 · KJV

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.

Psalm 31:3 · KJV

For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.

Psalm 40:2 · KJV

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

Psalm 42:9 · KJV

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalm 71:3 · KJV

Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.

Psalm 78:16 · KJV

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Psalm 104:18 · KJV

The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.

Psalm 141:6 · KJV

When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

Song of Solomon 2:14 · KJV

O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

Isaiah 2:21 · KJV

To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

Isaiah 7:19 · KJV

And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

Isaiah 31:9 · KJV

And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 32:2 · KJV

And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

Isaiah 33:16 · KJV

He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

Isaiah 42:11 · KJV

Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

Jeremiah 5:3 · KJV

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: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Jeremiah 23:29 · KJV

Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

Jeremiah 48:28 · KJV

O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole’s mouth.

Jeremiah 49:16 · KJV

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: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:25 · KJV

Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, 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 thee a burnt mountain.

Common questions

What does Strong's H5553 mean?

H5553 is the Hebrew word סֶלַע (çelaʻ), meaning a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress).

How is H5553 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it rock (34 times), rocks (6 times), out of the rock (3 times), art my rock (2 times), also out of the rock (1 time), among others.

How many times does H5553 appear in the Bible?

סֶלַע (çelaʻ) is tagged in 45 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H5553 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: from an unused root meaning to be lofty.

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