Strong's #5553: cela` (pronounced seh'-lah)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress):--(ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
sela‛
1) crag, cliff, rock
1a) crag, cliff
1b) as stronghold of Jehovah, of security (figuratively)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root meaning to be lofty
Usage:
This word is used 61 times:
Numbers 20:8: "thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth"
Numbers 20:8: "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"
Numbers 20:10: "and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said"
Numbers 20:10: "now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?"
Numbers 20:11: "and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly,"
Numbers 24:21: "is thy dwelling place, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock."
Deuteronomy 32:13: "of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty"
Judges 1:36: "of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward."
Judges 6:20: "and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so."
Judges 15:8: "and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam."
Judges 15:11: "of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson,"
Judges 15:13: "thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock."
Judges 20:45: "and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five"
Judges 20:47: "and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon"
Judges 20:47: "the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months."
Judges 21:13: "the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably"
1 Samuel 13:6: "did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits."
1 Samuel 14:4: "the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side,"
1 Samuel 14:4: "on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other"
1 Samuel 23:25: "him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul"
1 Samuel 23:28: "therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth. "
2 Samuel 22:2: "And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;"
1 Kings 19:11: "rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not"
2 Chronicles 25:12: "carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock,"
2 Chronicles 25:12: "of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces."
Nehemiah 9:15: "from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst"
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: "She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place."
Job 39:28: "on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place."
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,"
Psalms 31:3: "For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide"
Psalms 40:2: "clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings."
Psalms 42:9: "I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning"
Psalms 71:3: "to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress."
Psalms 78:16: "He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers."
Psalms 104:18: "hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies."
Psalms 137:9: "and dasheth thy little ones against the stones."
Psalms 141:6: "When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet."
Proverbs 30:26: "are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;"
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,"
Isaiah 2:21: "into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD,"
Isaiah 7:19: "of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes."
Isaiah 22:16: "on high, and that graveth a habitation for himself in a rock?"
Isaiah 31:9: "And he shall pass over to his stronghold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign,"
Isaiah 32:2: "in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land."
Isaiah 33:16: "on high: his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure."
Isaiah 42:11: "that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top"
Isaiah 57:5: "in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?"
Jeremiah 5:3: "correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return."
Jeremiah 13:4: "and hide it there in a hole of the rock."
