Word

סֶלַע

Çelaʻ · H5554 · Hebrew · proper noun · 4 occurrences

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Place

Selafirst named in Judges 1:363 verses

Meanings

Sela

Town; in Edom

Examples
Judges 1:36 The border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward.
2 Kings 14:7 He killed ten thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and named it Joktheel, as it is to this day.
Isaiah 16:1 Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land, From Sela by way of the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

תָּפַשׂto take hold 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

מִןfrom 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 6 entries

Landforms001002003: This entry carries no independent common-landform sense of its own; every tagged occurrence names the city Sela, as in “He killed ten thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and named it Joktheel” (2 Kings 14:7). The “Landforms” domain is bundle-shared with the related common noun סֶלַע (çelaʻ, H5553) rather than independently attested here.
Officials001001003007: This entry carries no independent “Officials” sense of its own; every tagged occurrence names the city Sela, as in “He killed ten thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and named it Joktheel” (2 Kings 14:7). The “Officials” domain is bundle-shared with the related common noun סֶלַע (çelaʻ, H5553) rather than independently attested here.
Leaders001001003005: This entry carries no independent “Leaders” sense of its own; every tagged occurrence names the city Sela, as in “He killed ten thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and named it Joktheel” (2 Kings 14:7). The “Leaders” domain is bundle-shared with the related common noun סֶלַע (çelaʻ, H5553) rather than independently attested here.
Titles003001017: This entry carries no independent title sense of its own; every tagged occurrence names the city Sela, as in “He killed ten thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and named it Joktheel” (2 Kings 14:7). The “Titles” domain is bundle-shared with the related common noun סֶלַע (çelaʻ, H5553) rather than independently attested here.
Names of Locations003001010: סֶלַע names Sela, a rock-hewn city in Edom, illustrated at 2 Kings 14:7 ("took Sela by war, and named it Joktheel") and Isaiah 16:1 ("from Sela by way of the wilderness").
Names of Landforms003001008: This entry carries no independent "Names of Landforms" sense of its own distinct from the place name Sela already illustrated; the genuine tagged occurrences (2 Kings 14:7, Isaiah 16:1) name the city, and the domain is bundle-shared with that sense.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5554. Sela II. סֶ֫לַע proper name, of a location in Edom, ׳מֵהַהַסּ Jdg 1:36 (strike out…

H5554. Sela
II. סֶ֫לַע proper name, of a location in Edom, ׳מֵהַהַסּ Jdg 1:36 (strike out מֵ, compare GFM); ׳הַסּ captured in war 2Ki 14:7 (and called יָקְתְאֵל); ׳מִסּ Isa 16:1; site dubious; old identification with Petra denied, plausibly, by BuhlEdom GFMJu, 36 (who thinks of an actual cliff), but held Benz2Ki 14:7 BdPal (1898), 206; ᵐ5 (ἡ)πέτρα.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0