# סֶלַע (sela)

Israeli respelling: se-la. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5553. 53 Old Testament occurrences.

a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)

King James renderings: (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/sela-h5553

## Occurrences

- [Numbers 20:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/20/8) — 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 shal…
- [Numbers 20:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/20/10) — 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…
- [Numbers 20:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/20/11) — 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…
- [Numbers 24:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/24/21) — And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
- [Deuteronomy 32:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/13) — 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 ro…
- [Judges 1:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/36) — And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
- [Judges 6:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/6/20) — 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 di…
- [Judges 15:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/15/8) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/15/11) — 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 ove…
- [Judges 15:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/15/13) — And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And th…
- [Judges 20:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/45) — 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 pur…
- [Judges 20:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/47) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/13) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/13/6) — 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…
- [1 Samuel 14:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/4) — 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…
- [1 Samuel 23:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/23/25) — 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 w…
- [2 Samuel 22:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/2) — And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
- [1 Kings 19:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/19/11) — 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 moun…
- [2 Chronicles 25:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/25/12) — 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 do…
- [Nehemiah 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/15) — And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst th…
- [Job 39:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/39/1) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/39/28) — She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
- [Psalms 18:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/2) — 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…
- [Psalms 31:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/31/3) — For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
- [Psalms 40:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/2) — 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.
- [Psalms 42:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/42/9) — I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
- [Psalms 71:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/71/3) — Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortr…
- [Psalms 78:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/16) — He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
- [Psalms 104:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/104/18) — The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
- [Psalms 137:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/137/9) — Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
- [Psalms 141:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/141/6) — When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
- [Proverbs 30:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/26) — The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
- [Song of Solomon 2:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/2/14) — 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 s…
- [Isaiah 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/21) — 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…
- [Isaiah 7:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/19) — 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 b…
- [Isaiah 22:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/22/16) — What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high…
- [Isaiah 31:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/31/9) — 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, a…
- [Isaiah 32:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/32/2) — 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 g…
- [Isaiah 33:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/33/16) — 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 57:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/5) — Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
- [Jeremiah 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/3) — 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 refus…
- [Jeremiah 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/13/4) — Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
- [Jeremiah 16:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/16/16) — Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt…
- [Jeremiah 23:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/29) — Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
- [Jeremiah 48:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/28) — 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 mout…
- [Jeremiah 49:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/16) — 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…
- [Jeremiah 51:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/25) — Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon the…
- [Ezekiel 24:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/24/7) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/24/8) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/4) — 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…
- [Ezekiel 26:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/14) — 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 sp…
- [Amos 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/6/12) — 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 h…
- [Obadiah 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/obadiah/1/3) — The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his hear…