Sela

Sela - =Se'lah, rock, the capital of Edom, situated in the great valley\nextending from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea (2 Kings 14:7). It\nwas near Mount Hor, close by the desert of Zin. It is called\n"the rock" (Judg. 1:36). When Amaziah took it he called it\nJoktheel (q.v.) It is mentioned by the prophets (Isa. 16:1;\nObad. 1:3) as doomed to destruction. It appears in later history and in the Vulgate Version under\nthe name of Petra. "The caravans from all ages, from the\ninterior of Arabia and from the Gulf of Persia, from Hadramaut\non the ocean, and even from Sabea or Yemen, appear to have\npointed to Petra as a common centre; and from Petra the tide\nseems again to have branched out in every direction, to Egypt,\nPalestine, and Syria, through Arsinoe, Gaza, Tyre, Jerusalem,\nand Damascus, and by other routes, terminating at the\nMediterranean." (See Edom [2].)

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Sela is also the name of a Star Trek character.