Salt, City of

Jos 15:62. A city near Engedi and the Dead Sea, in the wilderness. Van de Velde mentions finding a nahr Maleh ("salt"), one of four ravines which together form the wady el Bedim; another is the wady ’Amreh. ("Gomorrha"?).

One of the six cities in the wilderness that fell to the lot of Judah. Jos 15:62. Identified by some with Tell el Milh, ’salt hill,’ 31° 13’ N, 35° 1’ E.

SALT, CITY OF.—A city of Judah (Jos 15:61-62). It may be inferred to have occupied some position on the western shore of the Dead Sea, between En-gedi and Khashm Usdum (the salt mountain).

(המּלח עיר, ‛ı̄r ha-melaḥ; Codex Alexandrinus αί πόλ(ε)ις ἁλῶν, hai pól(e)is halṓn): One of the six cities in the wilderness of Judah mentioned between Nibshan and Engedi (Jos 15:62). The site is very uncertain. The large and important Tell el-Milḥ (i.e. “the salt hill”), on the route from Hebron to Akaba, is possible.