Definition
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)
Traditional renderings: (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.
Traditional renderings: (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.
Where it occurs
Occurrences
58 total
- Jeremiah 49:16הַסֶּ֔לַע · of the rocksThe terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:25הַסְּלָעִ֔ים · the cliffs“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
- Ezekiel 24:7סֶ֖לַע · rockFor the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.
- Ezekiel 24:8סָ֑לַע · rockIn order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.’
- Ezekiel 26:4סָֽלַע׃ · rockThey will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.
- Ezekiel 26:14סֶ֗לַע · rockI will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread the fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.’
- Amos 6:12בַּסֶּ֙לַע֙ · on the cliffs“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
- Obadiah 1:3סֶּ֖לַע · of the rocksThe pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’