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City of Salt

עִיר־הַמֶּ֫לַחStrong’s H5898

ir hammelach (ir ham-me-lach)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Ir hammelach is the Hebrew word usually translated “city of” and “salt”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with their villages.”
Joshua 15:62 KJV
Meaning
  1. § Ir-hammelech = "the city of salt"
How it's translated
  • and city of 1
  • salt 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Joshua 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    עִיר־הַמֶּ֫לַח ir hammelach · City of Salt

    § Ir-hammelech = "the city of salt" a place in the desert of Judah

    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.]

    1. Common salt is the muriate of soda, a substance used for seasoning certain kinds of food, and for the preservation of meat, etc.
    2. In chimistry, a body compounded of an acid united to some base, which may be either an alkali, an earth, or a metallic oxyd.
    3. Taste; sapor; smack.
    4. Wit; poignancy; as Attic salt
    All definitions and other forms of “salt”

      SALT, adjective

      1. Having the taste of salt; impregnated with salt; as salt beef; salt water
      2. Abounding with salt; as a salt land. Jeremiah 17:6
      3. Overflowed with salt water, or impregnated with it; as a salt marsh.
      4. Growing on salt marsh or meadows and having the taste of salt; as salt grass or hay.
      5. Producing salt water; as a salt spring.
      6. Lecherous; slacious.

      SALT, noun

      1. The part of a river near the sea, where the water is salt
      2. A vessel for holding salt

      SALT, verb transitive

      1. To sprinkle, impregnate or season with salt; as, to salt fish, beef or pork.
      2. 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.