Hebrew word · H5548

סַלְכָה

salkhah

Salecah

A town name. It marks the eastern limit of Bashan and of Og's realm.

Appears 4 times in 4 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

§ 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

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of 1 Chronicles 5:11

Range of meaning

A town name. It marks the eastern limit of Bashan and of Og's realm.

Against the English

Spellings differ: Salecah (BSB, WEB), Salchah (KJV), Salcah (YLT). They all refer to the same place.

Used elsewhere in the period

Deut 3:10; Josh 12:5; 13:11. It is usually identified with Salkhad, a fortified height in the Jebel Druze (Jabal al-Arab) in southern Syria. The identification is widely accepted but not proven by inscriptions.

Where it appears

Deuteronomy · 1

  1. Deuteronomy 3:10 סַלְכָ֖ה Salecah

    all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og.

    Here: A town at the far eastern edge of Bashan, usually identified with modern Salkhad on the southern slopes of the Jebel al-Arab (Jebel Druze) in Syria.

Joshua · 2

  1. Joshua 12:5 וּבְסַלְכָה֙ and over Salecah

    He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

    Here: A town at the far eastern edge of Bashan, usually identified with modern Salkhad in the Jebel Druze. With Hermon it marks the north-west and south-east corners of Og's realm.

  2. Joshua 13:11 סַלְכָֽה׃ Salecah

    also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 5:11 סַלְכָֽה׃ Salecah

    The descendants of Gad lived next to the Reubenites in the land of Bashan, as far as Salecah:

    Here: A town on the far eastern edge of Bashan, named as Og's border city in Deut 3:10 and Josh 12:5; 13:11. It is usually identified with Salkhad in the Jebel Druze area of southern Syria. Naming it shows how far east Gad's reach went.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.