Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H4417
מֶ֫לַח
me.lach · “Salt (Sea)”
Used 29 times across 14 books
Definition
salt
Also named: a.ra.vah (עֲרָבָה "(Sea of the )Arabah" H6160K)
Also named: a.ra.vah (עֲרָבָה "(Sea of the )Arabah" H6160K)
Where it appears
Genesis2
Leviticus3
Numbers3
Deuteronomy2
Joshua5
Judges1
2 Samuel1
2 Kings4
1 Chronicles1
2 Chronicles2
Job1
Psalms1
Ezekiel2
Zephaniah1
In the text
Genesis 14:3All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.Genesis 19:26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.Leviticus 2:13And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.Numbers 18:19All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee.Numbers 34:3Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:Numbers 34:12And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.Deuteronomy 3:17The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdoth–pisgah eastward.Deuteronomy 29:22So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it;Joshua 3:16That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.Joshua 12:3And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth–jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth–pisgah:
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