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Gematria of Salt

4 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “salt” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 39 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

Hebrew equivalents
4
Occurrences
39
Distinct values
2

The 4 Hebrew words rendered “salt”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

מֶלַחmelach×28 in the TanakhH4417

properly, powder, i.e. (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved)

Standard 78 →Gadol 78Katan 15Siduri (ordinal) 33Atbash 90Perati 2,564Milui 572

First appearance ·Genesis 14:3בראשית יד:גהַמֶּֽלַח

See all 17 occurrences of the spelling מלח →

מָלַחmâlach×5 in the TanakhH4414

properly, to rub to pieces or pulverize; intransitively, to disappear as dust; to salt whether internally (to season with salt) or externally (to rub with salt)

Standard 78 →Gadol 78Katan 15Siduri (ordinal) 33Atbash 90Perati 2,564Milui 572

First appearance ·Exodus 30:35שמות ל:להמְמֻלָּח

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מְלַחmᵉlach×3 in the TanakhH4416

salt

Standard 78 →Gadol 78Katan 15Siduri (ordinal) 33Atbash 90Perati 2,564Milui 572

First appearance ·Ezra 4:14עזרא ד:ידמְלַח

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מְלֵחָהmᵉlêchâh×3 in the TanakhH4420

properly, salted (i.e. land), i.e. a desert

Standard 83 →Gadol 83Katan 20Siduri (ordinal) 38Atbash 180Perati 2,589Milui 578

First appearance ·Jeremiah 17:6ירמיהו יז:ומְלֵחָה

See all 2 occurrences of the spelling מלחה →

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Quick answers

What is the gematria of salt?

The Tanakh renders “salt” with 4 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: מלח = 78 and מלחה = 83.

How do you say salt in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 4 Hebrew words for “salt”; the most frequent are מלח (melach), 36 times; מלחה (mᵉlêchâh), 3 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.