# צֵלָע (tsela)

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

Strong’s H6763. 32 Old Testament occurrences.

a rib (as curved), literally (of the body) or figuratively (of a door, i.e. leaf); hence, a side, literally (of a person) or figuratively (of an object or the sky, i.e. quarter); architecturally, a (especially floor or ceiling) timber or plank (single or collective, i.e. a flooring)

King James renderings: beam, board, chamber, corner, leaf, plank, rib, side (chamber).

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tsela-h6763

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/2/21) — And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
- [Genesis 2:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/2/22) — And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
- [Exodus 25:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/25/12) — And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and…
- [Exodus 25:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/25/14) — And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
- [Exodus 26:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/26/20) — And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
- [Exodus 26:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/26/26) — And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
- [Exodus 26:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/26/27) — And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two s…
- [Exodus 26:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/26/35) — And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: a…
- [Exodus 27:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/27/7) — And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
- [Exodus 30:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/30/4) — And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it;…
- [Exodus 36:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/36/25) — And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
- [Exodus 36:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/36/31) — And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
- [Exodus 36:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/36/32) — And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.
- [Exodus 37:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/37/3) — And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the…
- [Exodus 37:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/37/5) — And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
- [Exodus 37:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/37/27) — And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the st…
- [Exodus 38:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/7) — And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
- [2 Samuel 16:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/16/13) — And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill’s side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at…
- [1 Kings 6:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/6/5) — And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the…
- [1 Kings 6:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/6/8) — The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out o…
- [1 Kings 6:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/6/15) — And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered…
- [1 Kings 6:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/6/16) — And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within,…
- [1 Kings 6:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/6/34) — And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
- [1 Kings 7:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/3) — And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
- [Job 18:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/18/12) — His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
- [Ezekiel 41:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/5) — After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every sid…
- [Ezekiel 41:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/6) — And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side…
- [Ezekiel 41:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/7) — And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward rou…
- [Ezekiel 41:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/8) — I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
- [Ezekiel 41:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/9) — The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chamb…
- [Ezekiel 41:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/11) — And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and t…
- [Ezekiel 41:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/41/26) — And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers o…