סֶלַע m. (b. h.; Arab. salʿa, to cleave) 1) rock, clod, boulder. Tosef. B. Bath. I, 1 בס׳ הבא בידים if there is (between the two pits) a clod which crumbles under one’s hands; B. Bath. 17ᵇ; 19ᵃ. Orl. I, 3 אילן שנעקר והס׳ עמו if a tree has been uprooted with the clod on its roots; a. fr.—Pl. סְלָעִים, סְלָעִין. B. Bath. II, 1 מרחיקין … את הס׳ וכ׳ deposits of stones (or earth) must be kept off the neighbor’s wall &c.; Y. Sabb. IV, 6ᵈ bot. לא שהס׳ מרתיחין וכ׳ not because they generate heat, but because they generate mould and ruin the wall. B. Bath. l. c. תנא הכא ס׳ והוא הדין לחול the Mishnah mentions stones and implies sand. Tanḥ. Ḥuck. 20 ס׳ כמין שדים rocks protruding like breasts; a. fr. —2) pl. as ab. scales on the bodies of serpents. Tanḥ. M’tsorʿa 2 הס׳ שהן על הנחש וכ׳ the scales on the serpent’s back are its leprosy. —3) Sela, a weight and a coin equal to one sacred or two common Shekels (v. Zuckerm. Talm. Münz., pp. 9; 24). Kel. XII, 7 ס׳ שנפסלה וכ׳ a Sela which has been unfitted (as a coin) and which has been fitted up for use as a weight. Bekh. 50ᵃ ס׳ של קדש וכ׳ the sacred S. contains 48 dupondia. Ib. כל כסף האמור בתורה סתם ס׳ every silver piece mentioned in the Pentateuch without any qualification means a S. Ib.ᵇ (ref. to B. Kam. VIII, 6) ולא תימא ס׳ ארבע זוזי וכ׳ think not that the Mishnah means a S. of four Zuz, but it means half a Zuz, for people call half a Zuz a Sela (split, cmp. בֶּקַע); B. Kam. 36ᵇ ס׳ צורי a Tyrian S.; ס׳ מדינה a country S. (one eighth of a Tyrian S., half a Zuz; v. supra); a. v. fr.—In gen. coin. Sabb. VI, 6 ס׳ שעל הצינית a coin placed on a sore of the foot. Ab. Zar. 54ᵇ ס׳ שלי my (the Lord’s) coin (divine image of man), v. פּוּמְבִּי.—Pl. as ab. Y. Sabb. l. c. תיפתר בס׳ של כסף it means s’laʿim (coins) of silver; בשל זהב וכ׳ golden, copper s’laʿim. Keth. V, 9 משקל חמשה ס׳ שתי וכ׳ warp of the weight of five S. in Judæa which is equal to ten S. in Galilee &c. Y. Kidd. I, 59ᵈ bot., a. e. כל שקלים … ס׳ all Shekels mentioned in the Pentateuch mean S., v. supra; a. fr.—[Tosef. Ukts. I, 2 (T’bul Yom III) ס׳ של שבלים, v. מֵלַע.]