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H4417Mמֶ֫לַחme.lach

saltPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. 1
  2. Exodus: 0
  3. 3
  4. 1
  5. 1
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. 1
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1 Samuel: 0
  10. 2 Samuel: 0
  11. 1 Kings: 0
  12. 2
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 1
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 1
  19. Psalms: 0
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. Isaiah: 0
  24. Jeremiah: 0
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 2
  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. 1
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

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Other meanings of H4417

  • H4417Gמֶ֫לַחme.lachSalt (Sea)H:N-MOccurrences: 9
  • H4417Hמֶ֫לַחme.lach(Valley of) SaltH:N-MOccurrences: 5

14 occurrences in 12 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Genesis 19:26

    But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

    מֶֽלַח׃ Me.lach “salt”

  2. Leviticus 2:13

    And every meal-offering of thine shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal-offering; with all thy offerings thou shalt offer salt.

    בַּמֶּ֣לַח (מֶּ֣לַח) Me.lach “salt”מֶ֚לַח Me.lach “[the] salt of”מֶֽלַח׃ Me.lach “salt”

  3. Numbers 18:19

    All 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, as a due for ever; it is an everlasting covenant of salt before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed

    מֶ֨לַח Me.lach “salt of”

  4. Deuteronomy 29:22

    and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger, and in His

    וָמֶלַח֮ (מֶלַח֮) me.Lach “salt”

  5. Judges 9:45

    And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that were therein; and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

    מֶֽלַח׃ Me.lach “salt”

  6. 2 Kings 2:20

    And he said: 'Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein.' And they brought it to him.

    מֶ֑לַח Me.lach “salt”

  7. 2 Kings 2:21

    And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and said: 'Thus saith the LORD: I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or miscarrying.'

    מֶ֑לַח Me.lach “salt”

  8. 2 Chronicles 13:5

    ought ye not to know that the LORD, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

    מֶֽלַח׃ Me.lach “salt”

  9. Job 6:6

    Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the juice of mallows?

    מֶ֑לַח Me.lach “salt”

  10. Ezekiel 43:24

    And thou shalt present them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt-offering unto the LORD.

    מֶ֔לַח Me.lach “salt”

  11. Ezekiel 47:11

    But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given for salt.

    לְמֶ֥לַח (מֶ֥לַח) Me.lach “salt”

  12. Zephaniah 2:9

    Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding-place of nettles, and saltpits, and a desolation, for ever; the residue of My people shall spoil them

    מֶ֥לַח Me.lach “salt”