This word comes from the names of Salt Sea and Valley of Salt.
Definition
from H4414; properly, powder, i.e. (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved)
Traditional renderings: salt(-pit).
Traditional renderings: salt(-pit).
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
28 total
- Genesis 14:3הַמֶּֽלַח׃ · the SaltThe latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
- Genesis 19:26מֶֽלַח׃ · of saltBut Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
- Leviticus 2:13 (3×)בַּמֶּ֣לַח · with salt; מֶ֚לַח · the salt; מֶֽלַח׃ס · saltAnd you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.
- Numbers 18:19מֶ֨לַח · of saltAll the holy offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the LORD for you and your offspring.”
- Numbers 34:3הַמֶּ֖לַח · of the SaltYour southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,
- Numbers 34:12הַמֶּ֑לַח · at the SaltThen the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides.”
- Deuteronomy 3:17הַמֶּ֔לַחThe Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.
- Deuteronomy 29:23וָמֶלַח֮ · and saltAll its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
- Joshua 3:16הַמֶּ֖לַח…the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
- Joshua 12:3הַמֶּ֙לַח֙…as well as the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), eastward through Beth-jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.
- Joshua 15:2הַמֶּ֑לַחTheir southern border started at the bay on the southern tip of the Salt Sea,
- Joshua 15:5הַמֶּ֔לַחThe 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,
- Joshua 18:19הַמֶּ֙לַח֙The border continued to the northern slope of Beth-hoglah and came out at the northern bay of the Salt Sea, at the mouth of the Jordan. This was the southern border.
- Judges 9:45מֶֽלַח׃פ · it with saltAnd 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.
- 2 Samuel 8:13מֶ֑לַחAnd David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
- 2 Kings 2:20מֶ֑לַח · some salt“Bring me a new bowl,” he replied, “and put some salt in it.” So they brought it to him,
- 2 Kings 2:21מֶ֑לַח · the salt…and Elisha went out to the spring, cast the salt into it, and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will it cause death or unfruitfulness.’”
- 2 Kings 14:7הַמֶּלַח · of SaltAmaziah struck down 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He took Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this very day.
- 1 Chronicles 18:12הַמֶּ֔לַח · of SaltMoreover, Abishai son of Zeruiah struck down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
- 2 Chronicles 13:5מֶֽלַח׃ס · of saltDo you not know that the LORD, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt?
- 2 Chronicles 25:11הַמֶּ֑לַחAmaziah, however, summoned his strength and led his troops to the Valley of Salt, where he struck down 10,000 men of Seir,
- Job 6:6מֶ֑לַח · saltIs tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?
- Psalm 60:1מֶ֑לַח · of SaltFor the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A Miktam of David for instruction. When he fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!
- Ezekiel 43:24מֶ֔לַח · saltYou must present them before the LORD; the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the LORD.
- Ezekiel 47:11לְמֶ֥לַח · for saltBut the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
- Zephaniah 2:9מֶ֥לַח · salt pitsTherefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”