melach · salt

What it means

melach (מֶלַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “salt”.

"The Salt Sea" is the Dead Sea.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Salt; "covenant of salt" is a lasting covenant.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×5
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×3
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 14:3

  All these joined forces at the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

• Genesis 19:26

  But his wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

• Leviticus 2:13

  Every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; and you shall not leave out the salt of the covenant of your Elohim from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall present salt.

• Numbers 18:19

  All the contributions of the holy things that the sons of Israel set apart for YHWH I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before YHWH for you and for your offspring with you.”

• Numbers 34:3

  Your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea on the east.

• Numbers 34:12

  and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and it shall end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land by its borders all around.”

• Deuteronomy 3:17

  and the Arabah, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

• Deuteronomy 29:23

  —all its land brimstone and salt, a burning; it will not be sown, and it will not sprout, and no plant will come up in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which YHWH overthrew in his anger and in his wrath—

• Joshua 3:16

  the waters coming down from above stopped; they rose up in one heap, very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, came to an end, were cut off. And the people crossed opposite Jericho.

• Joshua 12:3

  and the Arabah as far as the Sea of Chinneroth to the east, and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, to the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth, and on the south, below the slopes of Pisgah;

• Joshua 15:2

  And their south border was from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces south;

• Joshua 15:5

  And the east border was the Salt Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan. And the border on the north side ran from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan;

• Joshua 18:19

  and the border passed along to the slope of Beth-hoglah on the north; and the ends of the border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the mouth of the Jordan, to the south. This was the south border.

• Judges 9:45

  Abimelech fought against the city all that day; he captured the city and killed the people who were in it, and he tore down the city and sowed it with salt.

• 2 Samuel 8:13

  David made a name for himself when he returned from striking Aram in the Valley of Salt: eighteen thousand.

• 2 Kings 2:20

  He said, “Bring me a new bowl and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.

• 2 Kings 2:21

  He went out to the spring of the water and threw salt into it and said, “Thus says YHWH, ‘I have healed this water; from there there will no longer be death or miscarriage.’”

• 2 Kings 14:7

  He struck Edom in the Valley of Salt, ten thousand, and seized Sela in battle, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

• 1 Chronicles 18:12

  And Abishai son of Zeruiah struck Edom in the Valley of Salt: eighteen thousand.

• 2 Chronicles 13:5

  Is it not for you to know that YHWH Elohim of Israel gave the kingship over Israel to David forever, to him and to his sons, by a covenant of salt?

• 2 Chronicles 25:11

  Amaziah strengthened himself and led his people and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck the sons of Seir, ten thousand.

• Job 6:6

  Can what is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there flavor in the slime of the purslane?

• Psalms 60:1

  For the director. On The Lily of the Testimony. A Miktam of David, for teaching, when he fought against Aram-naharaim and against Aram of Zobah, and Joab returned and struck Edom in the Valley of Salt, twelve thousand. Elohim, you have rejected us, you have broken through us; you have been angry; restore us.

• Ezekiel 43:24

  And you shall present them before YHWH, and the priests shall throw salt on them, and offer them as a burnt offering to YHWH.

• Ezekiel 47:11

  Its swamps and its marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt.

• Zephaniah 2:9

  Therefore, as I live, declares YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel, surely Moab will be like Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and a pit of salt, and a desolation forever; the remnant of my people will plunder them, and the rest of my nation will inherit them.”

And 2 more times.