Bible Names

Salcah: meaning of the name

Salcah means “thy basket; thy lifting up.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Salcah in Hebrew and Greek

סַלְכָה H5548

Çalkâh (sal-kaw') — Salcah, a place East of the Jordan

from an unused root. meaning to walk; walking;

Salcah in Scripture

“Salcah” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Joshua 12:5

    And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

  • Joshua 13:11

    And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;