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HebrewH4417Noun (Masculine)

מֶ֫לַח

me.lach

24Occurrences
H4417Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

properly, powder, i.e. (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved)

from H4414 (מָלַח);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
salt Also named: a.ra.vah (*עֲרָבָה *"(Sea of the )Arabah" H6160K)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

מֶ֫לַח appears 24 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
5
2 Kings
3
Numbers
3
2 Chronicles
2
Ezk
2
Genesis
2
1 Chronicles
1
2 Samuel
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 18:12BSB

Moreover, Abishai son of Zeruiah struck down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

2 Kings 2:20BSB

“Bring me a new bowl,” he replied, “and put some salt in it.”So they brought it to him,

Ezk 43:24BSB

Verse text unavailable

Judges 9:45BSB

And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.

Joshua 15:5BSB

The eastern border was the Salt Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan.The northern border started from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan,

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.