Tsela צֵלָע

Tsela (Hebrew צֵלָע, Strong's H6763) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “side”. It occurs 40 times in 31 verses of the Old Testament.

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

Genesis

• Genesis 2:21
  And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
• Genesis 2:22
  And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.

Exodus

• Exodus 25:12
  And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.
• Exodus 25:14
  And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, in order to carry it.
• Exodus 26:20
  And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:For the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, make twenty frames
• Exodus 26:26
  And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,You are also to make five crossbars of acacia wood for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
• Exodus 26:27
  And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.five for those on the other side, and five for those on the rear side of the tabernacle, to the west.
• Exodus 26:35
  And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.And place the table outside the veil on the north side of the tabernacle, and put the lampstand opposite the table, on the south side.
• Exodus 27:7
  And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.
• Exodus 30:4
  And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.And make two gold rings below the molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it.
• Exodus 36:25
  And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,For the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty frames
• Exodus 36:31
  And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,He also made five crossbars of acacia wood for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
• Exodus 36:32
  And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.five for those on the other side, and five for those on the rear side of the tabernacle, to the west.
• Exodus 37:3
  And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.And he cast four gold rings for its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.
• Exodus 37:5
  And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry it.
• Exodus 37:27
  And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.He made two gold rings below the molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it.
• Exodus 38:7
  And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it. He made the altar with boards so that it was hollow.

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 16:13
  And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill’s side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.So David and his men proceeded along the road as Shimei went along the ridge of the hill opposite him. As Shimei went, he yelled curses, threw stones, and flung dust at David.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 6:5
  And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
• 1 Kings 6:8
  The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.
• 1 Kings 6:15
  And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
• 1 Kings 6:16
  And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
• 1 Kings 6:34
  And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.The two doors were made of cypress wood, and each had two folding panels.
• 1 Kings 7:3
  And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 41:5
  After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.
• Ezekiel 41:6
  And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.
• Ezekiel 41:7
  And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.
• Ezekiel 41:8
  I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits.
• Ezekiel 41:9
  The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple
• Ezekiel 41:11
  And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.The side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around.
• Ezekiel 41:26
  And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.There were beveled windows and palm trees on the sidewalls of the portico. The side rooms of the temple also had canopies.

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).