Sela סֶ֫לַע

Sela (Hebrew סֶ֫לַע, Strong's H5554) is a place name in the Old Testament, glossed “Sela”. It occurs 4 times.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Sela, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Judges

• Judges 1:36
  And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.And the border of the Amorites extended from the Ascent of Akrabbim to Sela and beyond.

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 14:7
  He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.Amaziah struck down 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He took Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this very day.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 16:1
  Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.
• Isaiah 42:11
  Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.Let the desert and its cities raise their voices; let the villages of Kedar cry aloud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).