צֶלַעTselaʻ

proper name [of a location]: in Benjamin (Joshua 18:28; 2 Samuel 21:14)

Pronunciation: tseh'-lah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6762

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Joshua 18:28 Zela, Haeleph, the Jebusite town (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath-jearim—fourteen towns with their surrounding villages. This was the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.
  • 2 Samuel 21:14 Then the king ordered that they bury the bones in the tomb of Kish, Saul’s father, at the town of Zela in the land of Benjamin. After that, God ended the famine in the land.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).