STRONGS NUMBER H5548


Word Summary
Salkah: a city on the E. border of Bashan
Original Word: סַלְכָה
Transliteration: Salkah
Phonetic Spelling: (sal-kaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: a city on the E. border of Bashan
Meaning: Salecah -- a city on the eastern border of Bashan
Strong's Concordance
Salcah, Salchah

From an unused root. Meaning to walk; walking; Salcah, a place East of the Jordan -- Salcah, Salchah.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5548. Salkah

סַלְכָהproper name, of a location city on east border of Bashan, Deuteronomy 3:10; Joshua 12:5; 13:11 (all D), 1 Chronicles 5:11; = Nabataean עלתד‎ (Lzb358 Cook101), modern ‚al—ad, ‚ar—ad, on southern spur of Jebel Hauran, approximately 63 miles due east of Jordan; compare BuhlGeogr. 252 DrDeuteronomy 3:10; ᵐ5Σελχα, Ελχα, etc. (Σ lost often after ἔως).