{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H4417",
  "lemma": "מֶלַח",
  "transliteration": "melach",
  "definition": "properly, powder, i.e. (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved)",
  "kjv": "salt(-pit).",
  "occurrences": 28,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H4414",
      "lemma": "מָלַח",
      "transliteration": "mâlach",
      "meaning": "to rub to pieces or pulverize",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H4414"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "מֶ֫לַח n.m. salt"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 14:3",
      "text": "All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea).",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 19:26",
      "text": "But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 2:13",
      "text": "Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/2?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 18:19",
      "text": "All the wave offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer to the LORD, I have given you and your…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/18?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 34:3",
      "text": "then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/34?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 34:12",
      "text": "The border shall go down to the Jordan, and end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/34?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 3:17",
      "text": "the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/3?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 29:22",
      "text": "that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 3:16",
      "text": "the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/3?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 12:3",
      "text": "and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/12?v=3"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H4417",
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  "credit": "Besorah (https://besorah.bible). Texts and word data are open; terms and licences:",
  "license": "https://besorah.bible/data-licence.txt",
  "credits": "https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html"
}