Occurrences
Melach occurs 27 times in 25 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Leviticus (1), Numbers (3), Deuteronomy (2), Joshua (5), Judges (1), 2 Samuel (1), 2 Kings (3), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (2), Job (1), Ezekiel (2), Zephaniah (1)
- Genesis 14:3 — All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt (הַמֶּֽלַח) sea.
- Genesis 19:26 — But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt (מֶֽלַח).
- Leviticus 2:13 — And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt (בַּמֶּ֣לַח); 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.
- Leviticus 2:13 — And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt (מֶ֚לַח) of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
- 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 offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt (מֶֽלַח).
- 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 statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt (מֶ֨לַח) for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
- 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 (הַמֶּ֖לַח) sea eastward:
- Numbers 34:12 — And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt (הַמֶּ֑לַח) sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
- Deuteronomy 3:17 — The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt (הַמֶּ֔לַח) sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.
- Deuteronomy 29:23 — And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt (וָמֶלַח֮), and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
- 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 the sea of the plain, even the salt (הַמֶּ֖לַח) sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
- 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 (הַמֶּ֙לַח֙) sea on the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth-pisgah:
- Joshua 15:2 — And their south border was from the shore of the salt (הַמֶּ֑לַח) sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
- Joshua 15:5 — And the east border was the salt (הַמֶּ֔לַח) sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:
- Joshua 18:19 — And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt (הַמֶּ֙לַח֙) sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.
- 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 sowed it with salt (מֶֽלַח).
- 2 Samuel 8:13 — And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt (מֶ֑לַח), being eighteen thousand men.
- 2 Kings 2:20 — And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt (מֶ֑לַח) therein. And they brought it to him.
- 2 Kings 2:21 — And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt (מֶ֑לַח) in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
- 2 Kings 14:7 — He slew of Edom in the valley of salt (מֶ֙לַח֙) ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
- 1 Chronicles 18:12 — Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt (הַמֶּ֔לַח) 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 (מֶֽלַח)?
- 2 Chronicles 25:11 — And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt (הַמֶּ֑לַח), and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.
- Job 6:6 — Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt (מֶ֑לַח)? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
- Ezekiel 43:24 — And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt (מֶ֔לַח) upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
- Ezekiel 47:11 — But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt (לְמֶ֥לַח).
- 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 nettles, and saltpits (מֶ֥לַח), and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.