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. Psalms 60:title מֶ֑לַח Me.lach · A person, place or thing

    For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth. Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand. O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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