סֶלַע

«סֶלַע» in the Tanakh dictionary: rock — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 4 times · Key: 5554 · BDB: סֶ֫לַע²

Glosses

Sela (3); of.Sela (1)

Meaning (OSHB)

rock tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr.loc. in Edom, מֵהַסּ׳ Ju 1:36 (del. מֵ, cf. GFM); הַסּ׳ captured in war 2 K 14:7 (and called יָקְתְאֵל); מִסּ׳ Is 16:1; site dub.; old identif. with Petra denied, plausibly, by BuhlEdom GFM Ju 1:36 (who thinks of an actual cliff), but held Benz 2 K 14:7 BdPal (1898), 206; 𝔊 (ἡ) πέτρα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «סֶלַע» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Isaiah 16:1

שִׁלְחוּ־כַ֥ר מֹשֵֽׁל־אֶ֖רֶץ מִסֶּ֣לַע מִדְבָּ֑רָה אֶל־הַ֖ר בַּת־צִיּֽוֹן׃

Word for word: send a.lamb [the].ruler of.[the].land from Sela wilderness to.[the] to the.mountain of.the.daughter of.Zion

JPS 1917: Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from the crags that are toward the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

Judges 1:36

וּגְבוּל֙ הָאֱמֹרִ֔י מִֽמַּעֲלֵ֖ה עַקְרַבִּ֑ים מֵהַסֶּ֖לַע וָמָֽעְלָה׃פ

Word for word: and the.border of the.Amorite[s] [was].from.[the] ascent of.scorpions from (the) Sela and upward upwards

JPS 1917: And the border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela, and upward.

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