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Lexicon :: Strong's H4417 - melaḥ

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מֶלַח
Transliteration
melaḥ
Pronunciation
meh'-lakh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1197a

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: מלח.

Strong’s Definitions

מֶלַח melach, meh'-lakh; from H4414; properly, powder, i.e. (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved):—salt(-pit).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 28x

The KJV translates Strong's H4417 in the following manner: salt (27x), saltpits (with H4379) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 28x
The KJV translates Strong's H4417 in the following manner: salt (27x), saltpits (with H4379) (1x).

  1. salt

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מֶלַח melach, meh'-lakh; from H4414; properly, powder, i.e. (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved):—salt(-pit).
STRONGS H4417: Abbreviations
† II. מֶ֫לַח noun masculine salt (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic bdb057105; Aramaic bdb057106, מִלְחָא); — מ׳ absolute Genesis 19:26 +; construct Leviticus 2:13; — salt for seasoning food Job 6:6; offering Leviticus 2:13 (3 times in verse) compare Ezekiel 43:24; בְּרִית מֶ֫לַח Numbers 18:19; 2 Chronicles 13:5 (compare Leviticus 2:13 see Di); used in purifying waters 2 Kings 2:20, 21; strewn on site of devoted city Judges 9:45 compare Zephaniah 2:9 (מִכְרֵהמֿ׳) Deuteronomy 29:22 (|| גָּפְרִית); produced in marshes reserved for purpose Ezekiel 47:11; pillar of salt נְצִיב מ׳ Genesis 19:26; usually in combination הַמֶּלַח יָם(־) Genesis 14:3 (עֶ֫מֶק הַשִּׂדִּים), Numbers 34:3, 12; Deuteronomy 3:17 (|| יָם הָעֲתָבָה), Joshua 3:16; Joshua 12:3; Joshua 15:2, 5; Joshua 18:19; also גֵיאמֿ׳ 2 Samuel 8:13; 2 Kings 14:7 Qr, Psalm 60:2 (title), גֵּיא הַמּ׳ 1 Chronicles 18:12; 2 Chronicles 25:11; 2 Kings 14:7 Kt.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H4416.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

14:3; 19:26; 19:26

Leviticus

2:13; 2:13; 2:13

Numbers

18:19; 34:3; 34:12

Deuteronomy

3:17; 29:22

Joshua

3:16; 12:3; 15:2; 15:5; 18:19

Judges

9:45

2 Samuel

8:13

2 Kings

2:20; 2:21; 14:7; 14:7

1 Chronicles

18:12

2 Chronicles

13:5; 25:11

Job

6:6

Psalms

60:2

Ezekiel

43:24; 47:11

Zephaniah

2:9

H4417

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4417 matches the Hebrew מֶלַח (melaḥ),
which occurs 28 times in 26 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:3 - All these [fn]met with one consent at the salt valley; this is now the sea of salt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:26 - And his wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:13 - And every gift of your sacrifice shall be seasoned with salt; omit not the salt of the covenant of the Lord from your sacrifices: on every gift of yours ye shall offer salt to the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:19 - Every special offering of the holy things, whatsoever the children of Israel shall specially offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, a perpetual ordinance: it is a covenant [fn]of salt for ever before the Lord, for thee and thy seed after thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 - And your southern side shall be from the wilderness of Sin to the border of Edom, and your border southward shall [fn]extend on the side of the salt sea eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:12 - And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the termination shall be the salt sea; this shall be your land and its borders round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:17 - And Araba and Jordan are the boundary of Machanareth, even to the sea of Araba, the salt sea under Asedoth Phasga eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - (LXX 29:22) brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrha were overthrown, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew in his wrath and anger:)—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 - then the waters that came down from above stopped; there stood one solid heap very far off, as far as [fn]the region of Kariathiarim, and [fn]the lower part came down to the sea of Araba, the salt sea, till it completely failed; and the people stood opposite Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:3 - And Araba as far as the sea of Chenereth eastward, and as far as the sea of Araba; the salt sea eastward by the way to Asimoth, from Thæman under Asedoth Phasga.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:2 - And their borders were from the south as far as a part of the salt sea from the [fn]high country that extends southward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:5 - And their boundaries eastward are all the salt sea as far as Jordan; and their borders from the north, and from the border of the sea, and from part of Jordan—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:19 - And the termination of the borders shall be at the creek of the salt sea northward to the side of Jordan southward: these are their southern borders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45 - And Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and took the city, and slew the people that were in it, and destroyed the city, and sowed it with salt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:13 - And David made himself a name: and when he returned he smote Idumea in Gebelem to the number of eighteen thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:20 - And Elisaie said, Bring me a new pitcher, and put salt in it. And they took one, and brought it to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:21 - And Elisaie went out to the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and says, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be any longer death thence or barren land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:7 - He smote of Edom ten thousand in the [fn]valley of salt, and took [fn]the Rock in the war, and called its name Jethoel until this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:12 - And Abesa son of Saruia smote the Idumeans in the valley of Salt, eighteen thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:5 - Is it not for you to know that the Lord God of Israel has given a king over Israel for ever to David, and to his sons, by a covenant of salt?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:11 - And Amasias strengthened himself, and took his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote there the children of Seir ten thousand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:6 - Shall bread be eaten without salt? or again, is there taste in empty words?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:1 - (LXX 59:1) For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, (59:2) when he had burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria Sobal, and Joab had returned and smitten in the valley of salt twelve thousand. (59:3) O God, thou hast rejected and destroyed us; thou hast been angry, yet hast pitied us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:24 - And ye shall offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall sprinkle salt upon them, and shall offer them up as whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:11 - But at the outlet of the water, and the turn of it, and where it overflows its banks, they shall not heal at all; they are given to salt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:9 - Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodoma, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha; and Damascus shall be left as a heap of the threshing-floor, and desolate for ever: and the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.
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