סֶלַע

סֶלַעm. (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 ones 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 neighbors wall ; Y.Sabb.IV, 6d bot. לא שהס׳ מרתיחיןוכ׳ 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. Mtsorʿa 2 הס׳ שהן על הנחשוכ׳ the scales on the serpents 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; 2 4). Kel. XII, 7 ס׳ שנפסלהוכ׳ a Sela which has been unfitted (as a coin) and which has been fitted up for use as a weight. Bekh.50a ס׳ של קדשוכ׳ 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 זוזיוכ׳ 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 Lords) coin (divine image of man), v. פּוּמְבִּי.Pl. as ab. Y. Sabb. l. c. תיפתר בס׳ של כסף it means slaʿim (coins) of silver; בשל זהבוכ׳ golden, copper slaʿim. Keth.V, 9 משקל חמשה ס׳ שתיוכ׳ warp of the weight of five S. in Judaea which is equal to ten S. in Galilee 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 (Tbul Yom III) ס׳ של שבלים, v. מֵלַע.