Gematria of Rock
7 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “rock” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 186 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 7
- Occurrences
- 186
- Distinct values
- 6
The 7 Hebrew words rendered “rock”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
First appearance ·Exodus 17:6שמות יז:והַצּוּר
a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)
First appearance ·Numbers 20:8במדבר כ:חהַסֶּלַע
a fortified place; figuratively, a defence
First appearance ·Judges 6:26שופטים ו:כוהַמָּעוֹז
flint
First appearance ·Deuteronomy 8:15דברים ח:טוהַֽחַלָּמִֽישׁ
a rock (Job 28:10); also a form (as if pressed out)
First appearance ·Ezekiel 43:11יחזקאל מג:יאצוּרַת
Sela, the rock-city of Idumaea
First appearance ·2 Kings 14:7מלכים ב יד:זהַסֶּלַע
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of rock?
The Tanakh renders “rock” with 7 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: צור = 296, סלע = 160, מעוז = 123, and 3 more.
How do you say rock in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 7 Hebrew words for “rock”; the most frequent are צור (tsûwr), 77 times; סלע (çelaʻ), 62 times; מעוז (mâʻôwz), 36 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.