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HebrewH5548Noun

סַלְכָה

sal.khah

4Occurrences
H5548Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Salcah, a place East of the Jordan

from an unused root. meaning to walk; walking;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Salcah or Salchah = "migration" a town or district at the extreme eastern limit of Bashan and allocated to the tribe of Gad; modern 'Sulkhad' which is 56 miles (90 km) east of the Jordan at the southern extremity of the Hauran mountain range

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

סַלְכָה appears 4 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
2
1 Chronicles
1
Deuteronomy
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 5:11BSB

The descendants of Gad lived next to the Reubenites in the land of Bashan, as far as Salecah:

Deuteronomy 3:10BSB

all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og.

Joshua 12:5BSB

He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

Joshua 13:11BSB

also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—

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