Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name applied in southwestern New York to groups of rock bluffs and walls divided along joint-planes into quadrangular forms and separated by intersecting passages of considerable depth and width.
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The two next names which represent places on the coast to the north of Gaza are quite unknown, but Sala ', which is written Selakh by Ramses III. (from a cuneiform original), is possibly the rock-city Sela (2 Kings xiv. 7), better known to us as Petra.
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Tyre -- (Jos 19: 29; 2Sa 24: 7), literally, meaning "the rock-city,"
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