# H5553 סֶלַע

סֶלַע (çelaʻ), Strong’s H5553: a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress) KJV: (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.. Occurs 59 times.

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*çelaʻ* — a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)

KJV: (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.

Occurs 59 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- סֶ֫לַע 61 n.m. crag, cliff

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 20:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/20?v=8) — “Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes…
- [Numbers 20:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/20?v=10) — Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we…
- [Numbers 20:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/20?v=11) — Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice, and water came out abundantly. The congregation and…
- [Numbers 24:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/24?v=21) — He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, “Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the…
- [Deuteronomy 32:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=13) — He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of…
- [Judges 1:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=36) — The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
- [Judges 6:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/6?v=20) — The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the…
- [Judges 15:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/15?v=8) — He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
- [Judges 15:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/15?v=11) — Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the…
- [Judges 15:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/15?v=13) — They spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not…