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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 Young's Literal Translation.

  1. Genesis 19:26

    And his wife looketh expectingly from behind him, and she is -- a pillar of salt!

    מֶֽלַח׃ Me.lach “salt”

  2. Leviticus 2:13

    And every offering -- thy present -- with salt thou dost season, and thou dost not let the salt of the covenant of thy God cease from thy present; with all thine offerings thou dost bring near 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 sons of Israel lift up to Jehovah I have given to thee and to thy sons, and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute age-during, a covenant of salt, age-during it `is' before Jehovah, to thee and to thy seed with thee.'

    מֶ֨לַח Me.lach “salt of”

  4. Deuteronomy 29:23

    (`with' brimstone and salt is the whole land burnt, it is not sown, nor doth it shoot up, nor doth there go up on it any herb, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overturned in His anger, and in His fury,) --

    וָמֶלַח֮ (מֶלַח֮) me.Lach “salt”

  5. Judges 9:45

    and Abimelech hath fought against the city all that day, and captureth the city, and the people who `are' in it he hath slain, and he breaketh down the city, and soweth it `with' salt.

    מֶֽלַח׃ Me.lach “salt”

  6. 2 Kings 2:20

    And he saith, `Bring to me a new dish, and place there salt;' and they bring `it' unto him,

    מֶ֑לַח Me.lach “salt”

  7. 2 Kings 2:21

    and he goeth out unto the source of the waters, and casteth there salt, and saith, `Thus said Jehovah, I have given healing to these waters; there is not thence any more death and sterility.'

    מֶ֑לַח Me.lach “salt”

  8. 2 Chronicles 13:5

    Is it not for you to know that Jehovah, God of Israel, hath given the kingdom to David over Israel to the age, to him and to his sons -- a covenant of salt?

    מֶֽלַח׃ Me.lach “salt”

  9. Job 6:6

    Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?

    מֶ֑לַח Me.lach “salt”

  10. Ezekiel 43:24

    And thou hast brought them near before Jehovah, and the priests have cast upon them salt, and have caused them to go up, a burnt-offering to Jehovah.

    מֶ֔לַח Me.lach “salt”

  11. Ezekiel 47:11

    Its miry and its marshy places -- they are not healed; to salt they have been given up.

    לְמֶ֥לַח (מֶ֥לַח) Me.lach “salt”

  12. Zephaniah 2:9

    Therefore, I live, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Surely, Moab is as Sodom, And the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, An overrunning of nettles and salt-pits, And a desolation -- unto the age. A residue of My people do seize them, And a remnant of My nation inherit them.

    מֶ֥לַח Me.lach “salt”