סלע

Hebrew

Root
ס־ל־ע (s-l-ʿ)

Etymology

Compare Arabic سِلْع (silʕ, “cleft, fissure”) and Aramaic סִלְעָא (“rock”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

סֶלַע • (séla) m (plural indefinite סְלָעִים)

1. (geology) rock

References

• “סלע” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
• H5553 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Even-Shoshan, Avraham (1979) The Even-Shoshan Dictionary, page 1808
• Klein, Ernest (1987) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary Of The Hebrew Language For Readers Of English, page 448

Further reading

• סלע on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he