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# סַלְכָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5548

**Salcah** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Salcah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5548/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סַלְכָה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5548/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city on E. border of Bashan, Dt 3:10; Jos 12:5; 13:11 (all D), 1 Ch 5:11; = Nab. צלחד (Lzb358 Cook101), mod. Ṣalḫad, Ṣarḫad on S. spur of Jebel Hauran, c. 63 m. due E. of Jordan; cf. BuhlGeogr. 252 Dr Dt 3:10; 𝔊 Σελχα, Ελχα, etc. (Σ lost often after ἕως).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Salecah (4).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 5:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.11/#tree)

וּבְנֵי־גָ֣ד לְנֶגְדָּ֗ם יָֽשְׁב֛וּ בְּאֶ֥רֶץ הַבָּשָׁ֖ן עַד־סַלְכָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the.descendants of.Gad to before them they.dwelt in the.land of.(the) Bashan to Salecah

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salcah:

[Joshua 13:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.11/#tree)

וְהַגִּלְעָ֞ד וּגְב֧וּל הַגְּשׁוּרִ֣י וְהַמַּעֲכָתִ֗י וְכֹ֨ל הַ֥ר חֶרְמ֛וֹן וְכָל־הַבָּשָׁ֖ן עַד־סַלְכָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (the) Gilead and the.territory of the.Geshurite\[s\] and the Maacathite\[s\] and all the.mountain of.Hermon and all (the) Bashan to Salecah

*JPS 1917:* and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5548.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5548/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).