סלע
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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)
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
