# מֶלַח (melach)

Israeli respelling: me-lach. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4417. 26 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, powder, i.e. (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved)

King James renderings: salt(-pit).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/melach-h4417

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 14:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/14/3) — All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
- [Genesis 19:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/26) — But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
- [Leviticus 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 la…
- [Numbers 18:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 daugh…
- [Numbers 34:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Numbers 34:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/34/12) — And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof…
- [Deuteronomy 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 Ashdothpisgah e…
- [Deuteronomy 29:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Joshua 3:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 th…
- [Joshua 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 Bethjeshi…
- [Joshua 15:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/15/2) — And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
- [Joshua 15:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/15/5) — And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the…
- [Joshua 18:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/18/19) — And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at t…
- [Judges 9:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/45) — And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and…
- [2 Samuel 8:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/8/13) — And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
- [2 Kings 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/2/20) — And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
- [2 Kings 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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; the…
- [2 Kings 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/14/7) — He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
- [1 Chronicles 18:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [2 Chronicles 25:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/25/11) — And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.
- [Job 6:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/6) — Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
- [Psalms 60:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/60/2) — Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
- [Ezekiel 43:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/43/24) — And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unt…
- [Ezekiel 47:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/11) — But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
- [Zephaniah 2:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…