HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6762
צֵלַע
tse.la — Zela
§ Zelah = "a rib" a city in Benjamin containing the family burial place of Saul
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Zelah
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Slope; side, a town in Benjamin, where Saul and his son Jonathan were buried (2 Sam. 21:14). It was probably Saul’s birthplace.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.