מֶ֫לַח

me.lach · salt

Hebrew · Strong's H4417 · Noun · Sounds like: meh'-lakh · 28 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • salt H4417M 14
  • Salt (Sea) H4417G 9
  • (Valley of) Salt H4417H 5

Strong's dictionary

from מָלַח; properly, powder, i.e. (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved); salt(-pit).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
מֶ֫לַח n.m. salt

Every occurrence

  1. Joshua 3:16 הַמֶּ֖לַח ha.Me.lach · A person, place or thing

    that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.

  2. Joshua 12:3 הַמֶּ֙לַח֙ ha.Me.lach · A person, place or thing

    and the Arabah unto the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and unto the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:

  3. Joshua 15:2 הַמֶּ֑לַח ha.Me.lach · A person, place or thing

    And their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looketh southward;

  4. Joshua 15:5 הַמֶּ֔לַח ha.Me.lach · A person, place or thing

    And the east border was the Salt Sea, even unto the end of the Jordan. And the border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan;

  5. Joshua 18:19 הַמֶּ֙לַח֙ ha.Me.lach · A person, place or thing

    and the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward; and the goings out of the border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this was the south border.

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