HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5554
סֶ֫לַע
se.la — Sela
§ Sela = "the rock" a place in Edom perhaps an early name for 'Petra'
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Sela
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5542
סֶ֫לָה
se.lah — Selah
§ 1) to lift up, exalt 1a) Selah 1a1) a technical musical term probably showing accentuation, pause, interruption
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סֶ֫לַע
se.la — rock
The Rock Sela (H5554)
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חֲנוֹךְ
cha.nokh — Enoch
A man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.4.17; son of: Cain (H7014B); father of: Irad (H5897) § Enoch = "dedicated" 1) eldest son of Cain 2) son of Jared and father of Methuselah whom God took home to heaven without dying 3) the city which Cain built and named after his son Enoch (after himself) Hanoch = "dedicated" 4) a son of Midian, the third child 5) the eldest son of Reuben
15 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4968
מְתוּשֶׁ֫לַח
me.tu.she.lach — Methuselah
A man living at the time before the Flood, first mentioned at Gen.5.21; son of: Enoch (H2585H); father of: Lamech (H3929H) Also named: Mathousala (Μαθουσάλα "Methuselah" G3103) § Methuselah = "man of the dart" son of Enoch, 6th in descent from Seth, and father of Lamech
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Μαθουσάλα
Mathousala — Methuselah
Μαθουσάλα (WH, -αλά), ὁ (Heb. מְתוּשֶׁלַח), Methuselah: Luk.3:37.† (AS)
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סֶלַע הַמַּחְלְקוֹת
se.la ham.mach.le.qot — Rock of Escape
§ Sela-hammahlekoth = "the cliff of escapes" or "the cliff of divisions" a rock or cliff in the wilderness of Maon, southeast of Hebron, the scene of an escape of David from Saul
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=Se’lah, rock, the capital of Edom, situated in the great valley extending from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea (2 Kings 14:7). It was near Mount Hor, close by the desert of Zin. It is called “the rock” (Judg. 1:36). When Amaziah took it he called it Joktheel (q.v.) It is mentioned by the prophets (Isa. 16:1; Obad. 1:3) as doomed to destruction. It appears in later history and in the Vulgate Version under the name of Petra. “The caravans from all ages, from the interior of Arabia and from the Gulf of Persia, from Hadramaut on the ocean, and even from Sabea or Yemen, appear to have pointed to Petra as a common centre; and from Petra the tide seems again to have branched out in every direction, to Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, through Arsinoe, Gaza, Tyre, Jerusalem, and Damascus, and by other routes, terminating at the Mediterranean.” (See EDOM [2].)
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.