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Lexicon :: Strong's H4417 - melaḥ

Aa
מֶלַח
Transliteration
melaḥ
Pronunciation
meh'-lakh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

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 29 times in 26 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:3 - All these came together in the valley of Siddim (which is the Salt Sea).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:26 - But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:13 - And every meal offering is to be salted with salt; your meal offering is not to be without the salt of the agreement of your God: with all your offerings give salt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:19 - All the lifted offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as a right for ever. This is an agreement made with salt before the Lord, to you and to your seed for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 - Then your south quarter will be from the waste land of Zin by the side of Edom, and your limit on the south will be from the east end of the Salt Sea,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:12 - And so down to Jordan, stretching to the Salt Sea: all the land inside these limits will be yours.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:17 - As well as the Arabah, with the river Jordan as their limit, from Chinnereth to the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:23 - And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 - Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:3 - And the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, to the east, and to the sea of the Arabah, that is the Salt Sea, to the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:2 - Their south limit was from the farthest part of the Salt Sea, from the inlet looking to the south:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:5 - And the east limit is the Salt Sea as far as the end of Jordan. And the limit of the north part of the land is from the inlet of the sea at the end of Jordan:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:19 - And on to the north side of Beth-hoglah, ending at the north inlet of the Salt Sea at the south end of Jordan; this is their limit on the south.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45 - And all that day Abimelech was fighting against the town; and he took it, and put to death the people who were in it, and had the town pulled down and covered with salt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:13 - And David got great honour for himself, when he came back, by the destruction of Edom in the valley of Salt, to the number of eighteen thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:20 - So he said, Get me a new vessel, and put salt in it; and they took it to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:21 - Then he went out to the spring from which the water came, and put salt in it, and said, The Lord says, Now I have made this water sweet; no longer will it be death-giving or unfertile.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:7 - He put to the sword twelve thousand men of Edom in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela in war, naming it Joktheel, as it is to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:12 - And when he came back from putting to the sword eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:5 - Is it not clear to you that the Lord, the God of Israel, gave the rule over Israel to David and to his sons for ever, by an agreement made with salt?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:11 - Then Amaziah took heart, and went out at the head of his people and came to the Valley of Salt, where he put to death ten thousand of the children of Seir;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:6 - Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:1 - <To the chief music-maker; put to Shushan-eduth. Michtam. Of David. For teaching. When he was fighting against Aram-naharaim and Aramzobah, when Joab came back, and put twelve thousand of the Edomites to death, in the Valley of Salt.> God, you have put us away from you, you have sent us in all directions, you have been angry; O be turned to us again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:24 - And you are to take them before the Lord, and the priests will put salt on them, offering them up for a burned offering to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:11 - The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:9 - For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.
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