Strong H4417H4417Gמֶ֫לַח
Salt (Sea)
One of the 3 senses of Strong H4417
- Transliteration
- melach
- Pronunciation
- meh'-lakh
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
salt
Also named: a.ra.vah (עֲרָבָה "(Sea of the )Arabah" H6160K)
Also named: a.ra.vah (עֲרָבָה "(Sea of the )Arabah" H6160K)
General definition
From H4414; properly {powder} that {is} (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved): - salt ([-pit]).
In the biblical story
Salt Sea
Another name for the Dead Sea
The Salt Sea, also known as the Sea of Arabah, is another name for the Dead Sea, located at the lowest point on Earth (Gen. 14:3; Num. 34:3, 12; Deut. 3:17; Josh. 3:16; 12:3; 15:2, 5; 18:19; Deut. 4:49; 2 Ki. 14:25).
In the Bible
Strong H4417G appears in 9 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- salt9
First verses
- Genesis 14:3All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
- Numbers 34:3Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
- Numbers 34:12And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
- Deuteronomy 3:17The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdoth–pisgah eastward.
- Joshua 3:16That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
- Joshua 12:3And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth–jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth–pisgah:
- Joshua 15:2And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
- Joshua 15:5And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:
- Joshua 18:19And the border passed along to the side of Beth–hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.