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:
Jeremiah 16:16: "mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks."
Jeremiah 23:29: "the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock"
Jeremiah 48:28: "leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides"
Jeremiah 49:16: "of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though"
Jeremiah 51:25: "upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain."
Ezekiel 24:7: "of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground,"
Ezekiel 24:8: "her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered."
Ezekiel 26:4: "from her, and make her like the top of a rock."
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"
Amos 6:12: "Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment"
Obadiah 1:3: "hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart,"
