Lexical Summary Sela: a city in Edom Original Word: סֶלַעTransliteration: Sela Phonetic Spelling: (seh'-lah) Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: a city in Edom Meaning: Sela -- a city in Edom Strong's Concordance rock, Selah The same as cela'; Sela, the rock-city of Idumaea -- rock, Sela(-h). see HEBREW cela' Brown-Driver-Briggs H5554. Sela II. סֶ֫לַע proper name, of a location in Edom, ׳מֵהַהַסּ Judges 1:36 (strike out מֵ, compare GFM); ׳הַסּ captured in war 2 Kings 14:7 (and called יָקְתְאֵל); ׳מִסּ Isaiah 16:1; site dubious; old identification with Petra denied, plausibly, by BuhlEdom GFMJu, 36 (who thinks of an actual cliff), but held Benz2 Kings 14:7 BdPal (1898), 206; ᵐ5 (ἡ)πέτρα. |
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