H5548: סַלְכָה
Çalkâh · pronounced sal-kaw' · “Salecah”
Definition
Salcah, a place East of the Jordan
KJV translates it as: Salcah, Salchah.
Word origin: from an unused root. meaning to walk; walking;
Extended definition
§ Salcah or Salchah = "migration"
a town or district at the extreme eastern limit of Bashan and allocated to the tribe of Gad; modern 'Sulkhad' which is 56 miles (90 km) east of the Jordan at the southern extremity of the Hauran mountain range
a town or district at the extreme eastern limit of Bashan and allocated to the tribe of Gad; modern 'Sulkhad' which is 56 miles (90 km) east of the Jordan at the southern extremity of the Hauran mountain range
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H5548 is translated
- salecah ×4
Bible verses with H5548 (Çalkâh)
Çalkâh appears in 4 verses.
- Deuteronomy 3:10
All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- 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;
- 1 Chronicles 5:11
And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salchah: