se.la denotes a rock or crag, usually a physical formation and, in one declaration, an image applied to the LORD.

The term most often identifies a physical rock formation—such as a crag, cleft, bare surface, or elevated place used for shelter, habitation, or action. In a personal declaration about the LORD, the same image is used in the expression rendered “my rock.”

1. Physical rock formations and rocky places · dominant

   Singular and plural common-noun forms identify natural rocky features and surfaces. In 1 Samuel 14:4 the APB renders two opposing formations “a rocky crag”; in Isaiah 2:21 it speaks of crevices and clefts of rocks, while Numbers 20:8 places the assembled people before a rock that is to give water. Ezekiel 26:4 renders the result of scraping away Tyre's dust as “a bare rock.”

   1 Samuel 14:4Isaiah 2:21Numbers 20:8Job 39:28Ezekiel 26:42 Chronicles 25:12
2. Rock imagery applied to the LORD · rare

   A singular construct form occurs in a personal possessive expression. In 2 Samuel 22:2 the APB renders the declaration, “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer,” applying the physical image within a statement of protection and deliverance.

   2 Samuel 22:2

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited verses, the APB commonly presents the term with “rock,” “rocks,” “rocky crag,” or “bare rock.” In 2 Samuel 22:2 it renders the possessive expression “my rock”; Its English wording does not always isolate the term's contribution.