מֶלַח melach
Hebrew word for “salt” · Strong’s H4417 · used 28 times in 26 verses
Meaning
salt
Senses in the lexicon
- salt (14)
- Salt (Sea) (9)
- (Valley of) Salt (5)
How it is translated
Glosses given for melach in context, with how often each is used:
- salt 28
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua | 5 | 0.5 | |
| Leviticus | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Numbers | 3 | 0.2 | |
| 2 Kings | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Genesis | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Deuteronomy | 2 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Ezekiel | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Judges | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Job | 1 | 0.1 |
Also in 2 more books.
Chapters where it is used most
Numbers 34 (2), Joshua 15 (2), 2 Kings 2 (2), Genesis 14 (1), Genesis 19 (1), Leviticus 2 (1), Numbers 18 (1), Deuteronomy 3 (1), Deuteronomy 29 (1), Joshua 3 (1)
Forms
- מלח 14
- המלח 11
- במלח 1
- ומלח 1
- למלח 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with melach more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- יָם yam “sea” 9
- גַּיְא gay “valley” 5
- גְּבוּל gevul “border” 6
- קָצֶה qatseh “end” 4
- אֱדוֹם edom “Edom” 4
- אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 5
- יַרְדֵּן yarden “Jordan” 4
- נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 5
- עֲרָבָה aravah “Arabah” 3
- אַשְׁדּוֹת ashdot happisgah “Slopes (of Pisgah)” 2
- נֶגֶב negev “south” 3
- כִּנֶּרֶת kinnrot “(Sea of) Chinnereth” 2
Key verses
The verses using melach that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Leviticus 2:13 — And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat…
- Numbers 18:19 — All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a…
- Numbers 34:3 — Then 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…
- Deuteronomy 3:17 — The 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.
- Deuteronomy 29:23 — And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of…
- Joshua 3:16 — That 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…
- Joshua 12:3 — And 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…
- 2 Kings 2:21 — And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from…
- 1 Chronicles 18:12 — Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.
- 2 Chronicles 13:5 — Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
- Psalms 60:1 — [To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of…
- Zephaniah 2:9 — Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of…
See all 26 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.