Salecah
סַלְכָהStrong’s H5548salkhah (sal-khah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Salkhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “salecah” and “over salecah”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.”
Meaning
- § Salcah or Salchah = "migration"
How it's translated
- salecah 3
- and over salecah 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 12:5And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
- Joshua 13:11And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
- 1 Chronicles 5:11And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salcah:
Hebrew dictionary
סַלְכָה salkhah · Salecah
§ Salcah or Salchah = "migration" a town or district at the extreme eastern limit of Bashan and allocated to the tribe of Gad; modern 'Sulkhad' which is 56 miles (90 km) east of the Jordan at the southern extremity of the Hauran mountain range
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.