סַלְכָהÇalkâh

proper name [of a location]: city on east border of Bashan (Deuteronomy 3:10; Joshua 12:5; Joshua 13:11; 1 Chronicles 5:11)

Pronunciation: sal-kaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5548

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 3:10 We had now conquered all the cities on the plateau and all Gilead and Bashan, as far as the towns of Salecah and Edrei, which were part of Og’s kingdom in Bashan.
  • Joshua 12:5 He ruled a territory stretching from Mount Hermon to Salecah in the north and to all of Bashan in the east, and westward to the borders of the kingdoms of Geshur and Maacah. This territory included the northern half of Gilead, as far as the boundary of King Sihon of Heshbon.
  • Joshua 13:11 It included Gilead, the territory of the kingdoms of Geshur and Maacah, all of Mount Hermon, all of Bashan as far as Salecah,
  • 1 Chronicles 5:11 Next to the Reubenites, the descendants of Gad lived in the land of Bashan as far east as Salecah.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).