5548. Salkah

Lexicon

Salkah: Salecah

Original Word: סַלְכָה
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Transliteration: Calkah
Pronunciation: sal-KAH
Phonetic Spelling: (sal-kaw')
KJV: Salcah, Salchah
NASB: Salecah
Word Origin: [from an unused root. meaning to walk]

1. walking
2. Salcah, a place East of the Jordan

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Salcah, Salchah

From an unused root. Meaning to walk; walking; Salcah, a place East of the Jordan -- Salcah, Salchah.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
a city on the E. border of Bashan
NASB Translation
Salecah (4).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

סַלְכָה proper name, of a location city on east border of Bashan, Deuteronomy 3:10; Joshua 12:5; Joshua 13:11 (all D), 1 Chronicles 5:11; = Nabataean עלתד (Lzb³⁵⁸ Cook¹⁰¹), modern ‚al—ad, ‚ar—ad, on southern spur of Jebel Hauran, approximately 63 miles due east of Jordan; compare Buhl^{Geogr. 252} Dr^{Deuteronomy 3:10}; ᵐ5 Σελχα, Ελχα, etc. (Σ lost often after ἔως).

Forms and Transliterations

וּבְסַלְכָה֙ ובסלכה סַלְכָ֖ה סַלְכָֽה׃ סלכה סלכה׃ sal·ḵāh salChah salḵāh ū·ḇə·sal·ḵāh ūḇəsalḵāh uvesalChah

Englishman's Concordance

Deuteronomy 3:10
HEB: הַבָּשָׁ֔ן עַד־ סַלְכָ֖ה וְאֶדְרֶ֑עִי עָרֵ֛י
NAS: as far as Salecah and Edrei,
KJV: and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei,
INT: Bashan far Salecah and Edrei cities

Joshua 12:5
HEB: בְּהַ֨ר חֶרְמ֤וֹן וּבְסַלְכָה֙ וּבְכָל־ הַבָּשָׁ֔ן
NAS: Hermon and Salecah and all
KJV: Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan,
INT: Mount Hermon and Salecah and all Bashan

Joshua 13:11
HEB: הַבָּשָׁ֖ן עַד־ סַלְכָֽה׃
NAS: Bashan as far as Salecah;
KJV: Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
INT: Bashan far Salecah

1 Chronicles 5:11
HEB: הַבָּשָׁ֖ן עַד־ סַלְכָֽה׃
NAS: of Bashan as far as Salecah.
KJV: of Bashan unto Salchah:
INT: of Bashan far Salecah

4 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 5548
4 Occurrences

sal·ḵāh — 3 Occ.
ū·ḇə·sal·ḵāh — 1 Occ.