סֶלַע

1. literally cliff, crag Dom 6,20; Es 2,21; Es 7,19; Amos 6,12; 4 Mos 20,8 (twice in verse); 4 Mos 20,10 (twice in verse); 4 Mos 20,11(compare Neh 9,15; Sl 78,16, and contrast the צוּר of 2 Mos 17,6), 4 Mos 24,21; 5 Mos 32,13 (not elsewhere Hexateuch), + 10 t.; ׳שֵׁן הַסּ 1 Sam 14,4 (twice in verse) tooth of the crag, i.e. sharp crag, so Job 39,28 excavated in cliff as place of burial Es 22,16 abode of wild animals, ׳יַעֲלֵיסֿ vEs 22,1, compare Sl 104,18; Ord 30,26, of birds Job 39,28; Hoj 2,14 (in figurative), compare Jer 48,28, so of Edom Ob 1,3 = Jer 49,16 compare (4 Mos 24,21 above and) Es 42,11 particular cliffs are: עֵיטָם ׳ס Dom 15,8; Dom 15,11 compare vDom 15,13, (הָ)רִמּוֺן ׳ס Dom 20,45; Dom 20,47 (twice in verse); Dom 21,13 הַמַּחְלְקוֺת ׳ס 1 Sam 23,28 compare v1 Sam 23,25 see also II. סֶלַע.

2. figurative, especially סַלְעִי of ׳י (only Psalms), Sl 18,3 = 2 Sam 22,2; Sl 31,4; Sl 42,10; Sl 71,3 of Assyrian god Es 31,9 (probably; compare צוּר 5 Mos 32,31; 5 Mos 32,37); כָּבֵד ׳צֵל ס Es 32,2 (simile of protecting care); figurative of security Sl 40,3 (feet on cliff), מְצָדוֺת סְלָעִים מִשְׂגַּבּוֺ Es 33,16 symbol of obstinacy ׳חִזְּקוּ פְנֵיהֶם מִסּ Jer 5,3 ׳צְחִיחַ ס (bare cliff, literally glare of [the] cliff), in figure of openness, flagrancy Ezk 24,7; Ezk 24,8, of razed city Ezk 26,4; Ezk 26,14 (only here Ezekiel); in figure of fall of Babylonian Jer 51,25.