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Strong's #5548: Calkah (pronounced sal-kaw')

from an unused root. meaning to walk; walking; Salcah, a place East of the Jordan:--Salcah, Salchah.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

salkâh

Salcah or Salchah = "migration"

1) a town or district at the extreme eastern limit of Bashan and allocated to the tribe of Gad; modern ' Sulkhad' which is 56 miles

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: from an unused root meaning to walk



Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Deuteronomy 3:10: "and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og"
Joshua 12:5: "And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border"
Joshua 13:11: "and all Bashan unto Salcah;"
1 Chronicles 5:11: "them, in the land of Bashan unto Salchah:"









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