צֵלָע tsêlâʻ

Meaning

a rib (as curved), literally (of the body) or figuratively (of a door, i.e. leaf); hence, a side, literally (of a person) or figuratively (of an object or the sky, i.e. quarter); architecturally, a (especially floor or ceiling) timber or plank (single or collective, i.e. a flooring)

In the King James Version: beam, board, chamber, corner, leaf, plank, rib, side (chamber).

Derivation: or (feminine) צַלְעָה; from H6760 (צָלַע);

Where it is used

• Genesis 2:21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
• Genesis 2:22 And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.
• Exodus 25:12 Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.
• Exodus 25:14 Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, in order to carry it.
• Exodus 26:20 For the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, make twenty frames
• Exodus 26:26 You are also to make five crossbars of acacia wood for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
• Exodus 26:27 five for those on the other side, and five for those on the rear side of the tabernacle, to the west.
• Exodus 26:35 And place the table outside the veil on the north side of the tabernacle, and put the lampstand opposite the table, on the south side.
• Exodus 27:7 The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.
• Exodus 30:4 And make two gold rings below the molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it.
• Exodus 36:25 For the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty frames
• Exodus 36:31 He also made five crossbars of acacia wood for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
• Exodus 36:32 five for those on the other side, and five for those on the rear side of the tabernacle, to the west.
• Exodus 37:3 And he cast four gold rings for its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.
• Exodus 37:5 He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry it.
• Exodus 37:27 He made two gold rings below the molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it.
• Exodus 38:7 Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it. He made the altar with boards so that it was hollow.
• 2 Samuel 16:13 So David and his men proceeded along the road as Shimei went along the ridge of the hill opposite him. As Shimei went, he yelled curses, threw stones, and flung dust at David.
• 1 Kings 6:5 Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
• 1 Kings 6:8 The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.
• 1 Kings 6:15 He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
• 1 Kings 6:16 He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
• 1 Kings 6:34 The two doors were made of cypress wood, and each had two folding panels.
• 1 Kings 7:3 The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.
• Ezekiel 41:5 Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.
• Ezekiel 41:6 The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.
• Ezekiel 41:7 The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.
• Ezekiel 41:8 I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits.
• Ezekiel 41:9 The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple
• Ezekiel 41:11 The side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around.
• Ezekiel 41:26 There were beveled windows and palm trees on the sidewalls of the portico. The side rooms of the temple also had canopies.