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Isaiah 31:9
“And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5553 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)
- Derivation
- from an unused root meaning to be lofty;
- KJV renderings
- (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- סַלְע — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- וֹ֙ — suffix (pronominal), 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 59 times in the Hebrew Bible.Numbers 20:8Numbers 20:8Numbers 20:10Numbers 20:10Numbers 20:11
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read סֶלַע here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.