מִכְרֶה
mikreh · H4379 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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salt pits, patches of salt
Exact meaning unsure; probably: an area where the soil contains a large concentration of salt and other minerals that render it infertile
ExamplesZephaniah 2:9 “Therefore, as I live,” declares the LORD of armies, The God of Israel, “Moab will assuredly be like Sodom, And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah— Ground overgrown with weeds and full of salt mines, And a permanent desolation. The remnant of My people will plunder them, And the remainder of My nation will inherit them.”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מֶלַחsalt 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- בּוֹר bôwr · H953 · pit, cistern, dungeon
- Common Hebrew term for a pit or excavated hole; while בּוֹר typically refers to cisterns or wells, it overlaps semantically with מִכְרֶה as both denote excavated depressions in the ground.
In the other Testament 1 word
- βόθυνος bóthynos · G999 · pit, ditch, hole
- Greek term for a pit or ditch, commonly used for holes in the ground; semantically equivalent to the Hebrew term for a salt-pit or excavated depression.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Landforms001002003
- מִכְרֶה, occurring once in Zephaniah 2:9, names a salt pit or salt-mine, a geographic feature of the desolate land promised to Moab and Ammon.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4379. mikreh [מִכְרֶה] noun masculine pit (?) only construct מִכְרֵדהמֶֿלַךְ Zep 2:9…
[מִכְרֶה] noun masculine pit (?) only construct מִכְרֵדהמֶֿלַךְ Zep 2:9 salt-pit (but not certain).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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