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H4417Gמֶ֫לַחme.lach

Salt (Sea)Part of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. 1
  2. Exodus: 0
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. 2
  5. 1
  6. 5
  7. Judges: 0
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1 Samuel: 0
  10. 2 Samuel: 0
  11. 1 Kings: 0
  12. 2 Kings: 0
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. Job: 0
  19. Psalms: 0
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. Isaiah: 0
  24. Jeremiah: 0
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. Ezekiel: 0
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

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Other meanings of H4417

  • H4417Hמֶ֫לַחme.lach(Valley of) SaltH:N-MOccurrences: 5
  • H4417Mמֶ֫לַחme.lachsaltH:N-MOccurrences: 14

9 occurrences in 9 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Genesis 14:3

    All these came as allies unto the vale of Siddim--the same is the Salt Sea.

    הַמֶּֽלַח׃ (מֶּֽלַח) Me.lach “Salt”

  2. Numbers 34:3

    Thus your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin close by the side of Edom, and your south border shall begin at the end of the Salt Sea eastward;

    הַמֶּ֖לַח (מֶּ֖לַח) Me.lach “Salt”

  3. Numbers 34:12

    and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea; this shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.'

    הַמֶּ֑לַח (מֶּ֑לַח) Me.lach “Salt”

  4. Deuteronomy 3:17

    the Arabah also, the Jordan being the border thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

    הַמֶּ֔לַח (מֶּ֔לַח) Me.lach “Salt”

  5. Joshua 3:16

    that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off from 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 o

    הַמֶּ֖לַח (מֶּ֖לַח) Me.lach “Salt”

  6. Joshua 12:3

    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;

    הַמֶּ֙לַח֙ (מֶּ֙לַח֙) Me.lach “Salt”

  7. Joshua 15:2

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

    הַמֶּ֑לַח (מֶּ֑לַח) Me.lach “Salt”

  8. Joshua 15:5

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

    הַמֶּ֔לַח (מֶּ֔לַח) Me.lach “Salt”

  9. Joshua 18:19

    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.

    הַמֶּ֙לַח֙ (מֶּ֙לַח֙) Me.lach “Salt”