Zelah צלע
Zelah (צלע) is the name of a place in the Tanakh — Zela. Counted across every skip (2–152,424), the Torah holds 1,558,302 sequences of Zelah, the shortest at skip 2 (Genesis 22:9); chance alone would give about 1,576,857.
- Found in the Torah · every skip
- 1,558,302
- Chance alone · every skip
- 1,576,857
- P (≥ found) · every skip
- 1.00
- Shortest skip
- 2
- Longest skip found
- 152,264
Every skip the Torah allows for a spelling of 3 letters (2–152,424), both directions, final letters folded, the written text.
At the laboratory's default range, skips 2–5,000: 99,947 found · chance alone about 101,736 (probability of 99,947 or more by chance alone: 1.00).
In the Torah
1,558,302 sequences of צלע across every skip (2–152,424) in the Torah, close to the 1,576,857 that chance alone would produce.
The shortest skip at which צלע appears in the Torah is 2 — at Genesis 22:9, reading backward.
The longest skip at which צלע was found in the Torah is 152,264 — at Genesis 1:1, reading forward; a spelling of 3 letters fits the Torah at skips up to 152,424.
A three-letter spelling is common across every skip (2–152,424): in a text of 304,850 letters chance alone produces about 1,576,857 of it, so a large count is expected.
By book (where the first letter stands) · every skip
- Genesis 416,977
- Exodus 365,757
- Leviticus 189,573
- Numbers 275,710
- Deuteronomy 310,285
Examples across the range
5 of the 1,558,302 sequences, chosen across the range of skips — the shortest, mid-range skips and the longest found — each with its verse and its matrix.
Under each example, every letter of the sequence is listed with the verse it stands in. A letter falls in its verse by position alone — one letter every so many letters of the text — so the verses are where the letters stand, not part of the sequence's meaning.
Letter by letter
- צ ל עGenesis 22:9
… בְּנוֹ וַיָּשֶׂם אֹתוֹ עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּחַ מִמַּעַל לָעֵצִֽים
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads up one column. letter 27,574 of the TorahOpen at skip 2 in the laboratory →
- צ ל עGenesis 22:9
Letter by letter
- צ ל עNumbers 7:3
… אֶת־קָרְבָּנָם לִפְנֵי יְהוָה שֵׁשׁ־עֶגְלֹת צָב וּשְׁנֵי עָשָׂר בָּקָר עֲגָלָה עַל …
And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen: a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox; and they presented them before the tabernacle.
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads up one column. letter 198,472 of the TorahOpen at skip 2 in the laboratory →
- צ ל עNumbers 7:3
- ץExodus 16:14
וַתַּעַל שִׁכְבַת הַטָּל וְהִנֵּה עַל־פְּנֵי הַמִּדְבָּר דַּק מְחֻסְפָּס דַּק כַּכְּפֹר עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ
And when the layer of dew was gone up, behold upon the face of the wilderness a fine, scale-like thing, fine as the hoar-frost on the ground.
Letter by letter: the other 2 letters
- לExodus 16:16
זֶה הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר צִוָּה יְהוָה לִקְטוּ מִמֶּנּוּ אִישׁ לְפִי אָכְלוֹ עֹמֶר …
This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded: Gather ye of it every man according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall ye take it, every man for them that are in his tent.’
- עExodus 16:18
וַיָּמֹדּוּ בָעֹמֶר וְלֹא הֶעְדִּיף הַמַּרְבֶּה וְהַמַּמְעִיט לֹא הֶחְסִיר אִישׁ לְפִֽי־אָכְלוֹ לָקָֽטוּ
And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
skip 100, width 100 — one row is 100 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads down the middle column. letter 102,031 of the TorahOpen at skip 100 in the laboratory →
- ץExodus 16:14
- צLeviticus 14:36
וְצִוָּה הַכֹּהֵן וּפִנּוּ אֶת־הַבַּיִת בְּטֶרֶם …
And the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go in to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house.
Letter by letter: the other 2 letters
- לLeviticus 14:55
וּלְצָרַעַת הַבֶּגֶד וְלַבָּֽיִת
and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house;
- עLeviticus 15:20
וְכֹל אֲשֶׁר תִּשְׁכַּב עָלָיו בְּנִדָּתָהּ יִטְמָא וְכֹל אֲשֶׁר־תֵּשֵׁב עָלָיו יִטְמָֽא
And every thing that she lieth upon in her impurity shall be unclean; every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
skip 1,000, width 1,000 — one row is 1,000 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads down the middle column. letter 163,230 of the TorahOpen at skip 1,000 in the laboratory →
- צLeviticus 14:36
- ץGenesis 1:1
בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָֽרֶץ
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Letter by letter: the other 2 letters
- לLeviticus 8:26
… אַחַת וְרָקִיק אֶחָד וַיָּשֶׂם עַל־הַחֲלָבִים וְעַל שׁוֹק הַיָּמִֽין
And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and upon the right thigh.
- עDeuteronomy 34:7
וּמֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מֵאָה וְעֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה בְּמֹתוֹ לֹֽא־כָהֲתָה עֵינוֹ וְלֹא־נָס לֵחֹֽה
And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
skip 152,264, width 152,264 — one row is 152,264 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads down the middle column. letter 28 of the TorahOpen at skip 152,264 in the laboratory →
- ץGenesis 1:1
Across the Tanakh
Across every skip (2–598,520), צלע appears 24,727,852 times in the whole Tanakh; chance alone would give about 24,753,604, so the count is in line with chance.
At the laboratory's default range, skips 2–5,000: 407,132 found · chance alone about 411,771 (probability of 407,132 or more by chance alone: 1.00).
By book (where the first letter stands) · every skip
- Genesis 1,807,248
- Exodus 1,568,487
- Leviticus 795,231
- Numbers 1,152,352
- Deuteronomy 1,267,879
- Joshua 856,812
- Judges 599,559
- Samuel 1,409,962
- Kings 1,563,758
- Isaiah 2,082,323
- Jeremiah 1,946,960
- Ezekiel 1,535,344
- The Twelve 1,374,933
- Psalms 2,073,830
- Proverbs 753,493
- Job 729,101
- Song of Songs 110,344
- Ruth 70,216
- Lamentations 166,133
- Ecclesiastes 150,645
- Esther 143,288
- Daniel 429,052
- Ezra–Nehemiah 507,012
- Chronicles 1,633,890
Outside the Torah
Letter by letter
- ץ ל עJoshua 1:9
הֲלוֹא צִוִּיתִיךָ חֲזַק וֶאֱמָץ אַֽל־תַּעֲרֹץ וְאַל־תֵּחָת כִּי עִמְּךָ יְהוָה …
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.’
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column. letter 305,380 of the TanakhOpen at skip 2 in the laboratory →
- ץ ל עJoshua 1:9
- צJudges 9:12
וַיֹּאמְרוּ הָעֵצִים לַגָּפֶן לְכִי־אַתְּ מלוכי עָלֵֽינוּ
And the trees said unto the vine: Come thou, and reign over us.
Letter by letter: the other 2 letters
- לJudges 9:14
וַיֹּאמְרוּ כָל־הָעֵצִים אֶל־הָאָטָד לֵךְ אַתָּה מְלָךְ־עָלֵֽינוּ
Then said all the trees unto the bramble: Come thou, and reign over us.
- עJudges 9:16
וְעַתָּה אִם־בֶּאֱמֶת וּבְתָמִים עֲשִׂיתֶם וַתַּמְלִיכוּ …
Now therefore, if ye have dealt truly and uprightly, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands—
skip 100, width 100 — one row is 100 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads down the middle column. letter 360,523 of the TanakhOpen at skip 100 in the laboratory →
- צJudges 9:12
- צ2 Chronicles 36:21
… דְּבַר־יְהוָה בְּפִי יִרְמְיָהוּ עַד־רָצְתָה הָאָרֶץ אֶת־שַׁבְּתוֹתֶיהָ כָּל־יְמֵי …
to fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had been paid her sabbaths; for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Letter by letter: the other 2 letters
- לIsaiah 25:2
כִּי שַׂמְתָּ מֵעִיר לַגָּל קִרְיָה בְצוּרָה לְמַפֵּלָה אַרְמוֹן זָרִים מֵעִיר לְעוֹלָם לֹא יִבָּנֶֽה
For Thou hast made of a city a heap, Of a fortified city a ruin; A castle of strangers to be no city, It shall never be built. .
- עGenesis 1:2
וְהָאָרֶץ הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ וְחֹשֶׁךְ עַל־פְּנֵי תְהוֹם וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים מְרַחֶפֶת עַל־פְּנֵי הַמָּֽיִם
Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.
skip 598,364, width 598,364 — one row is 598,364 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads up the middle column. letter 1,196,800 of the TanakhOpen at skip 598,364 in the laboratory →
- צ2 Chronicles 36:21
The spelling
צלע — the Tanakh's own spelling: Zela. Searched as צלע, 3 letters, with a standard gematria value of 190.
As a plain word it stands 10 times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 32:32. Every word of the Tanakh in the Word Index →
Questions
Is Zelah in the Torah codes?
1,558,302 sequences of צלע across every skip (2–152,424) in the Torah, close to the 1,576,857 that chance alone would produce.
What is the shortest skip for Zelah in the Torah?
Skip 2, reading backward from Genesis 22:9 — the shortest of 1,558,302 sequences across every skip (2–152,424), where chance alone would give about 1,576,857.
What is the gematria of Zelah in Hebrew?
Zelah is spelled צלע — 3 letters searched, with a standard gematria value of 190.
How many times is Zelah found in the whole Tanakh?
Across every skip (2–598,520), צלע appears 24,727,852 times in the whole Tanakh; chance alone would give about 24,753,604, so the count is in line with chance.
Search it yourself
The laboratory runs the same search live in your browser — every sequence, the matrix around it, and the chance figure (about 1,576,857 across every skip (2–152,424) here) beside the count.