tsela · side

What it means

tsela (צֵלָע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “side”.

In almost all the Bible it means "side" (of a building, of the ark), or a side room or plank; it is also the part of the man's side from which God made the woman.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The flank of something, or the rooms built against the temple.
2. The part of man's side from which God made woman.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• side ×29
• sides ×7
• boards ×3
• beams ×1
• leaves ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×19
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×7
• Job×1
• Ezekiel×11

• Genesis 2:21

  And YHWH Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his sides and closed up the flesh in its place.

• Genesis 2:22

  And YHWH Elohim built the side that he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.

• Exodus 25:12

  You shall cast for it four rings of gold and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it and two rings on the other side of it.

• Exodus 25:14

  You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark with them.

• Exodus 26:20

  And for the second side of the dwelling, on the north side, twenty boards,

• Exodus 26:26

  You shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of one side of the dwelling,

• Exodus 26:27

  and five bars for the boards of the second side of the dwelling, and five bars for the boards of the side of the dwelling at the rear, westward.

• Exodus 26:35

  You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the dwelling; and the table you shall put on the north side.

• Exodus 27:7

  Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when it is carried.

• Exodus 30:4

  And two rings of gold you shall make for it under its molding; on its two sides you shall make them, on its two sides, and they shall be holders for poles to carry it with them.

• Exodus 36:25

  And for the second side of the dwelling, on the north side, he made twenty boards,

• Exodus 36:31

  And he made bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of the one side of the dwelling,

• Exodus 36:32

  and five bars for the boards of the second side of the dwelling, and five bars for the boards of the dwelling at the rear westward.

• Exodus 37:3

  And he cast for it four rings of gold on its four feet, and two rings on its one side, and two rings on its second side.

• Exodus 37:5

  and he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark.

• Exodus 37:27

  And two rings of gold he made for it under its molding, on its two sides, on its two sides, as holders for poles to carry it with them.

• Exodus 38:7

  And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, to carry it with them; hollow, of planks, he made it.

• 2 Samuel 16:13

  David and his men went along the road, and Shimei was going along the side of the hill opposite him, cursing as he went, and he threw stones opposite him and threw dust.

• 1 Kings 6:5

  And he built against the wall of the house an annex all around, against the walls of the house all around the temple and the inner sanctuary; and he made side chambers all around.

• 1 Kings 6:8

  The entrance of the middle side chamber was on the right side of the house; and by spiral stairs they went up to the middle one, and from the middle one to the third.

• 1 Kings 6:15

  And he built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling he overlaid them with wood on the inside; and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress.

• 1 Kings 6:16

  And he built the twenty cubits at the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls; and he built them for it on the inside as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.

• 1 Kings 6:34

  and two doors of cypress wood: the two leaves of the one door were pivoting, and the two leaves of the second door were pivoting.

• 1 Kings 7:3

  And it was roofed with cedar above, over the beams that were on the pillars: forty and five, fifteen to the row.

• Job 18:12

  His vigor is hungry, and calamity is ready at his side.

• Ezekiel 41:5

  And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of the side chamber, four cubits, all around the house, around.

• Ezekiel 41:6

  And the side chambers, side chamber upon side chamber, three, and thirty times; and they entered into the wall that belonged to the house for the side chambers all around, to be supported, but they were not supported in the wall of the house.

• Ezekiel 41:7

  And it became wider and wound around higher and higher for the side chambers, for the encircling of the house went higher and higher all around the house; therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so the lowest story went up to the highest by the middle one.

• Ezekiel 41:8

  And I saw that the house had a height all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed, six cubits to the joint.

• Ezekiel 41:9

  The width of the wall that belonged to the side chamber outside, five cubits; and what was free space by the structure of side chambers that belonged to the house,

• Ezekiel 41:11

  And the entrance of the side chamber opened to the free space, one entrance toward the north, and one entrance to the south; and the width of the place of the free space, five cubits all around.

• Ezekiel 41:26

  And there were closed windows and palm trees on this side and on that side, on the sides of the portico, and the side chambers of the house, and the canopies.

And 9 more times.