Sela in the Bible

Meaning: a rock

Exact Match

Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela-hammah-lekoth.

Verse ConceptsEscapingEscaping From People

Thematic Bible



He defeated 10,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley; he captured Sela in battle and renamed it Joktheel, a name it has retained to this very day.

Send rams as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the hill of Daughter Zion.


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