Bible Dictionary: Crags

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Strong's Hebrew

5553. sela -- a crag, cliff
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition a crag, cliff NASB Word Usage cliff
(4), cliffs (4), crag (2), crags (3), mountain* (1), Rock (1), rock (39), rocks ...
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Library

Letter iii. To Rufinus the Monk.
... his dearly loved brother, and settles like a new tiller of Eden on a dangerous island,
with the sea roaring round its reefs; while its rough crags, bare rocks ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter iii to rufinus the.htm

Lessons from Nature
... the trees which shade the brooks, the birds are singing; in the tall sombre pine,
the silent storks are building their nests; on the lofty crags, virgin as yet ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/lessons from nature.htm

Over the Mountains. "My Beloved is Mine, and I am His: He Feedeth ...
... If they had been less craggy or difficult, she might have tried to scale them; but
these mountains are terrible, and no foot may stand upon their lone crags. ...
/.../spurgeon/till he come/over the mountains my beloved is.htm

The Exile --Continued.
... wade through; of a guardianship which "keepeth all the bones" of the righteous,
so that neither the blows of the foe nor the perils of the crags should break ...
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Introduction
... great, and though cities and villages were crowded together on the plains and in
the valleys, and perched at times on almost inaccessible crags, the difficulty ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/introduction.htm

A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain
... been content"I have belonged solely to the irrational beings of nature, and no human
hum invaded my solitudes; the eagle nestled on my airy crags, and the ...
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The Wine of Prayer
... spots. For instance, the honey. Hardly any of this delightful food was
obtainable except in the crags of Hard Trials Mountains. And ...
/.../berry/adventures in the land of canaan/chapter twelve the wine of.htm

The Schoolboy of Madaura
... Towards the south, crumbling isolated crags appear, scattered about like gigantic
pedestals uncrowned of their statues, or like the pipes of an organ raised ...
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The Wilderness.
... peninsula, between the arms of the Red Sea, with the wild desolate peaks of Mount
Horeb towering in the midst, and all around grim stony crags, with hardly a ...
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The Golden Age, 1572-1603.
... His home lay at Namiest, in Moravia. He lived in a stately castle, built on two
huge crags, and surrounded by the houses of his retainers and domestics. ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter xii the golden age.htm

Thesaurus

Crags (10 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Crags (10 Occurrences). ... (See NAS RSV). Amos 6:12 Do
horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? ...
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Crag (5 Occurrences)
... As the breaking off of the undermined hard strata proceeds irregularly, there are
left projecting crags, sometimes at the top of the cliff, and sometimes lower ...
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Sinai (38 Occurrences)
... devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel" (Exodus
24:17); and, indeed, the glory of the Lord still dyes the crags of Jebel ...
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Craggy (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks;
as, the craggy side of a mountain. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Nest (22 Occurrences)
... and thy nest is set in the rock." Here Balaam was thinking of the nest of an eagle,
hawk or vulture, placed on solid rock among impregnable crags of mountain ...
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Rocky (14 Occurrences)
... And who cometh into our habitations? (See NAS NIV). Amos 6:12 Do horses
run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But ...
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Eagle (27 Occurrences)
... An interesting illustration is thus recorded by Sir Humphry Davy:, "I once
saw a very interesting sight above the crags of Ben Nevis. ...
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Michmash (10 Occurrences)
... village, goes down into the valley by a steep and difficult track, and crosses the
gorge by the pass, a narrow defile, with lofty, precipitous crags on either ...
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Cramped (3 Occurrences)

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Carmel (33 Occurrences)
... Two or three villages and some scattered cottages are found on it; its groves are
few but luxuriant; it is no place for crags and precipices or rocks of wild ...
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Bible Concordance

Crags (10 Occurrences)

1 Samuel 24:2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.
(See NIV)

Psalms 104:18 The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
(See NIV)

Proverbs 30:26 The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;
(See JPS NIV)

Isaiah 2:21 to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.
(See JPS NIV)

Isaiah 16:1 Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
(See JPS)

Isaiah 57:5 You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 18:14 Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?
(See RSV)

Jeremiah 48:28 You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.
(See NAS)

Jeremiah 51:25 Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.
(See NAS RSV)

Amos 6:12 Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
(WEB NIV)

Subtopics

Crags

Related Terms

Crag (5 Occurrences)

Sinai (38 Occurrences)

Craggy (1 Occurrence)

Nest (22 Occurrences)

Rocky (14 Occurrences)

Eagle (27 Occurrences)

Michmash (10 Occurrences)

Cramped (3 Occurrences)

Carmel (33 Occurrences)