(Salt) Valley
גַּיְאStrong’s H4417gay
Appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gay is the Hebrew word usually translated “salt” and “salt of”. It appears in 26 verses of the Old Testament.
“All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.”
Meaning
- Salt
- Valley, a steep valley, narrow gorge
- Salt
How it's translated
- salt 23
- salt of 2
- with salt 1
- and salt 1
- to salt 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 5
- Numbers 3
- 2 Kings 3
- Genesis 2
- Deuteronomy 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 19:26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
- Leviticus 2:13And 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 offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
- Numbers 18:19All 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 statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
- Numbers 34:3Then 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 eastward:
- Numbers 34:12And 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 round about.
- Deuteronomy 3:17The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward.
Hebrew dictionary
מֶ֫לַח melach · Salt (Sea)
salt Also named: a.ra.vah (עֲרָבָה "(Sea of the )Arabah" H6160K)
גַּיְא gay · (Salt) Valley
valley, a steep valley, narrow gorge Combined with me.lach (מֶ֫לַח " of Salt" H4417H)
מֶ֫לַח melach · salt
salt
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “salt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SALT, noun
[Gr.; Latin The radical sense is probably pungent, and if s is radical, the word belongs to the root of Latin salio; but this is uncertain.]
- Common salt is the muriate of soda, a substance used for seasoning certain kinds of food, and for the preservation of meat, etc.
- In chimistry, a body compounded of an acid united to some base, which may be either an alkali, an earth, or a metallic oxyd.
- Taste; sapor; smack.
- Wit; poignancy; as Attic salt
All definitions and other forms of “salt”
SALT, adjective
- Having the taste of salt; impregnated with salt; as salt beef; salt water
- Abounding with salt; as a salt land. Jeremiah 17:6
- Overflowed with salt water, or impregnated with it; as a salt marsh.
- Growing on salt marsh or meadows and having the taste of salt; as salt grass or hay.
- Producing salt water; as a salt spring.
- Lecherous; slacious.
SALT, noun
- The part of a river near the sea, where the water is salt
- A vessel for holding salt
SALT, verb transitive
- To sprinkle, impregnate or season with salt; as, to salt fish, beef or pork.
- To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
SALT, verb intransitive
To deposit salt from a saline substance; as, the brine begins to salt [Used by manufacturers.]
SALT, noun
A leap; the act of jumping. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.