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Lexical senses and semantic domains
Sense 1: rock
= a mass of hard stone projecting out of the ground; sometimes used as a hiding place; ≈ associated with security
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-005073-01Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 53 (53 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 2: rock > leader
literally: (a person as someone's rock); hence: = someone in a position of authority
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-005073-02Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 3: (God as a) Rock
literally: (God as one's) Rock; hence: = a title for God as the one who provides protection for his people
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-005073-03Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 4 (4 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 4: Sela
= town; ◄ in Edom
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-005073-04Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 4 (4 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 5: Rock of Separation
= a rock in the Judean Desert, where Saul stopped pursuing David after having received a message that the Philistines were raiding the land
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-005073-05Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON No exact site Strong's mapping is available for this lemma. Use these links to inspect lexical identity and occurrences. Domain membership identifies related vocabulary to investigate; it does not assign a passage meaning.
Related words and biblical concepts Reviewed concept, LXX, and theological relationships are not included in this MVP. No candidate relationship is presented as established fact.
Advanced record identity Lemma ID SDBC-HEB-LEMMA-005073Page model version 1.0 Direction rtl Domain policy Sense-specific only; no lemma-level union
